REVIEW: Behind The Beautiful Forevers, Olivier Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Behind the Beautiful Forevers at the National Theatre. Photograph: Richard Hubert Smith

What Hare has created here is a marvel: a tale of hope, horror and truth on an enormous scale, but rooted firmly in the characters and personalities of a particular culture, a particular place. It is, in every way, epic and at its most epic when looking into the minds of the central characters as they contemplate their existence which is a reflection of all of ours.