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Willy Russell is a brilliant man. He creates characters, plots and music
which the actors do not just perform, but inhabit, creating a feeling of reality
seldom found in musical, or any other type of theatre.
And then someone staged the last five minutes. For this monkey the illusion
was utterly destroyed by the crass staging of the end of the show. There must be
a better way of doing it. The script is there, the emotion exists, so why the
Cops'n'Robbers finish? Answers on an email.
See this anyway for the range and depth of playing the work demands of the
cast. The way they rise to the challenge of aging through the piece is
magnificent, and, if you work with the regional dialect of the show, the reward
is worthwhile character theatre at it's almost best.
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