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Director Renaud Doucet and designer André Barbe set the romance amidst the jumble of Paris’s famous flea markets. Inspired by the Jazz Age of Josephine Baker, this production will be full of their trademark colour, character and style.
Sure, it’s wonderful to hear this music so effusively expressed, and laboured over with such intensity, but not to the extent that it dominates everything else.
There are fine performances across the piece.
An enjoyable evening out.
For my purist friends the production was way over-the-top, the music, certainly from the front of the stalls, over powering and the opening few minutes with the youth listening and jogging to his iPhone out of kilter with what was to be the 1920s flea market.
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Theatre Royal, Glasgow. More info: www.theambassadors.com/theatreroyalglasgow/
His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen from Thursday May 25, 2017, until Saturday May 27, 2017. More info: www.hmtaberdeen.com
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh from Wednesday May 31, 2017, until Saturday June 10, 2017. More info: http://www.edtheatres.com/festival
Eden Court Theatre, Inverness from Tuesday June 13, 2017, until Saturday June 17, 2017. More info: www.eden-court.co.uk
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