The Curious Case of Benjamin evaluation: A golden age of British musicals continues

Compton – who doubles as director and designer – creates the credible world of a Cornish fishing village with planking, ropes and fishing nets on which the big solid dance, strut and sing in addition to taking part in quite a lot of devices.

The choreography alone is a marvel of ingenuity, as. no person will get their eye poked out by a fiddle bow or journeys over the double bass.

The storytelling songs are enormously evocative within the folks custom of Come From Away and the swirling exercise round Benjamin serves to spotlight his isolation.

Parker is excellent as Button, rising youthful merely via altering his posture and voice, and is supported by a solid for whom the phrase ‘versatility’ might need been coined. Some sort of great.