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Pint-pot pleasures
PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Full of mysterious religious references and radical sound design, the Scottish duo’s new offering is candidate for album of the year, suggests SIMON DUFF
MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
Princess Caraboo
Finborough Theatre, London SW1
4/5
PRINCESS Caraboo is an object lesson in how to fit a quart into a pint pot. Through a combination of ingenuity, endeavour and imagination its producers have succeeded in staging a West End-sized musical in a space not much larger than the average living room.
Based on an apparently true story, Princess Caraboo is a tale of conspiratorial deception, dissimulation and gullibility.
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