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MACK AND MABEL " Chichester Festival Theatre by Libby Purves

This is a tale of romance and of the lure of cinema: tricky on the stage. Mack Sennet, a clownish film director, is losing his beloved star, Mabel Normand, to the dreaded, meatier features. He leaves the emotion and the drama to the other directors, he says: DW Griffiths and the like. The issue is that, as Sennet would have wanted, Mack and Mabel is all performance and little gut. Extremely talented people are behind…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:36AM on July 22, 2015

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