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The Tobago Performing Arts Company (TPAC) presented its 2023 flagship production, Once on this Island, from June 29-July 1 at the Pigeon Point Heritage Park Pavilion. The full-length musical theatre production is set in the Caribbean and treats with themes of love and division, discourse on race, class, and colour, and looks at the complex

A review by Clive Davis for The Times of London. ★★★★☆Ola Ince is the young director who added onstage warnings about teenage depression and the patriarchy to Romeo and Juliet at the Globe a couple of years ago, so you could be forgiven for wondering what she might inject into a musical about race and class in the…

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Once on this Island, London musical review: Gorgeous but problematic new adaptation of the musical set in the Caribbean

Despite serious themes and fine acting talent, this Caribbean rejig of the Little Mermaid feels bland and insubstantial

A modern musical fairytale, Once On This Island is Romeo and Juliet set in the French Antilles with the two lovers on opposite sides of a race and class divide. Regent’s Park Theatre opens its 2023 season with a humdinger of a revival, a real foot-stomper that rings in the ears long after the last song finishes.

The musical numbers are excellent, driving the story forward and allowing the production to showcase some very beautiful harmonies.

★★★★☆Ola Ince is the young director who added onstage warnings about teenage depression and the patriarchy to Romeo and Juliet at the Globe a couple of years ag

A young woman offers her life to save an unworthy aristocrat in a passionately sung fable of Caribbean history

DIRECTOR OLA Ince has told The Voice Newspaper she aims to deliver the musical 'Once On This Island' with a dose of Voodoo reality that has been missing from previous productions.