Love Story , Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: There's an unusual neatness about the way Stephen Clark and Howard Goodall's adaptation of Erich Segal's 1970 novella unites in small-scale musical theatre terms a narrative involving pairs of opposites. Pushy girl and preppy boy, romance and marriage, mother and daughter, father and son, zest for life and terminal illness, sentimental slosh and tragic tenderness - score, lyric…