Magic's on the menu at the sad cafe: PATRICK MARMION reviews Bagdad Cafe
Rating: Verdict: Requires concentration Messianic theatre director Emma Rice is offering to heal the loneliness of lockdown with a bit of alternative therapy at the Old Vic: her own adaptation of the 1987 art house movie Bagdad Cafe — best known for Bob Telson's haunting theme tune, Calling You. It's the story of a Bavarian woman, Jasmin, abandoned by her husband beside a freeway through the Mojave desert in the western U.S., who takes refuge in a roadside cafe. The diner-cum-gas-station is run by Brenda, a brassy Caribbean woman who has kicked her husband out for failing to buy a new coff...
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