‘”Magical” monogamy’ The quintessential folk heroine Barbara Allen gets an Appalachian love affair in this new romantasy promising “Twilight meets Romeo and Juliet”. Mawkish doesn’t even begin to cover it. Welcome to the year… well, here is where we run into rather serious contextual problems. There is none. A blast of Doc Martens, long denim skirts and other 90s accessories ...
‘Insipid, tired and uninspiring’ Having only lasted two weeks on Broadway in 2002 Amour has finally moved across the pond to try its luck closer to its French setting, with its London debut at the Charing Cross Theatre. Its hard to work out who to attribute blame to in this stoney production, but with moments of brightness, it isn’t a ...

