Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London
With a chemistry that’s as bright as the modern-day costumes in this weird and wonderful show, the actors turn Shakespeare into a giddy house party cum modern romcom
It is usually a jukebox musical audience that are encouraged to “dance in the aisles”. In Jamie Lloyd’s 1990s clubland twist on Shakespeare, the ushers are doing it before the curtain has even gone up. It is a sign of things to come, along with the throwback soundtrack and the giddy swirl of disco lights.
Taylor Dayne’s Tell It to My Heart kicks off proceedings and a shower of pink confetti rains down. This is a thoroughly weird and absolutely wonderful re-conceptualisation, turning Shakespeare’s comedy, which narrowly swerves tragedy, into an old school house party cum modern romcom.
