That musical theatre had become a basket-case late last century was hardly a surprise. Not only had it overdosed on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sugar-coated soporifics, it kept banging its head against the twin brick walls of rock-based music and jukebox inanities. No, the surprise was that it ever regained its…
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In 1991 Lloyd Swanton was quite content. He had a stimulating career as a freelance bassist, and was one third of The Necks, who were already making waves, if yet to achieve their international acclaim. Then he decided there was another box to tick: the one marked “solo project”. It…
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has made himself one of the world’s leading playwrights inside a decade. Outhouse Theatre gave us his Gloria in 2019 and Kings Cross Theatre his Everybody last year, and now STC picks up an earlier play, Appropriate, directed by Wesley Enoch (Roslyn Packer March 15-April 10). This joins…