REVIEW: All-Male Pirates Of Penzance, Wilton’s Music Hall ✭✭✭✭
Julian Eaves reviews Sasha Regan’s All-male Pirates Of Penzance at Wilton’s Music Hall
Julian Eaves reviews Sasha Regan’s All-male Pirates Of Penzance at Wilton’s Music Hall
The wonder of Aria Entertainments’ revues is their simplicity and coherence: two qualities easy to strive for, but easy to miss in this deceptively simple form.
This HMS Pinafore asks us to reflect on a society that has changed considerably, but must keep evolving and continuing to examine itself. Gilbert’s jeering satire of a Victorian society obsessed with class and hierarchy doesn’t seem a million miles away from the problems young people still face in modern Britain.