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GUYS & DOLLS
The Bridge Theatre, London
THIS immersive revival of the classic ’50s musical Guys & Dolls knocks it out of the park.
So immersive is director Nicholas Hytner’s unique staging that you’d be forgiven for mistaking it at times for a Punchdrunk production, a forerunner of the genre.
Those with so-called “promenade” tickets are allowed to roam the stage floor at will, intermingling with the actors who portray the various gamblers, gangsters, drunks and dancers of the 1930s New York underworld.
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