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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.