Hayes Theatre, April 28 7.5/10 They were both married, so it was just a brief affair in the Mexican summer of 1937 between the political revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, 57, and the artistic revolutionary, Frida Kahlo, 29. “What,” asks the eccentric musical Carmen Live or Dead, “if that affair had resulted…
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Old Fitzroy, April 22 (until May 19) 3.5/10 If a tiny kernel of truth lay buried somewhere deep within Lucy Prebble’s play, this production did not find it. Instead it piled more layers of falsity atop those already in the British playwright’s text. Combine that with the theatre’s 40-degree heat,…