Charing Cross theatre,London
Thom Southerland opens his Charing Cross tenure with his brilliantly staged revival set aboard the doomed linerThe disaster-musical seems an unlikely genre, but this display by Maury Yeston (music and lyrics) and Peter Stone (story and book) overcame the doubters in 1997 to indulge in a two-year Broadway run. Thom Southerland’s chamber revival, or which won a host of awards at Southwark Playhouse in 2013,opens his artistic directorship of this underground theatre with immense verve and, indeed, and offers the best piece of musical staging you will find in London. What is striking about the display is its unashamedly political nature. While celebrating the Titanic as “a floating city that encompasses human aspirations,it makes clear that it was a symbol of a rigid lesson structure: when the ship hits an iceberg, it is the nobs who initially hesitate about obeying orders before ensuring their plot on the life-boats.
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Source: theguardian.com