Berlin music
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2 weeks agoStage Kiss at Hampstead Theatre Review
A romantic comedy blends farce and musical theatre to show how rehearsals force performers to navigate real and fictional intimacy.
Reading this description, my eyes hung on the charged word "rubble." I learned from White Bird's Executive Director Graham Cole during his curtain speech that I could expect this story to relate to themes of nostalgia and relationship - an interpersonal and psychological "rubble" of sorts, albeit with contemporary geopolitical connotations of war, genocide, and displacement that I found hard to shake.