Girl From the North Country continues at Marlowe, Canterbury until 20 August 2022 and then tours until 18 March 2023.
Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
It’s hard not to be seduced by the quality of the music in this show. Simon Hale’s arrangements of 20 Bob Dylan songs (dating from 1963 to 2012) are sensitive, evocative and beautiful.
Everyone in the cast, several of whom are actor-musicians, sings strikingly well. And the on-stage band, The Howlin’ Winds, catches every wistful nuance. Ruth Elder is an outstanding fiddle player.
And yet… Conor McPherson’s plot is clumsy, tiresomely episodic and shot through with undeveloped subplots. Reliance on a narrator to fill in the gaps is a weak device too.
Nick Laine (Colin Connor) and his wife Elizabeth (Frances McNamee) …
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https://musicaltheatrereview.com/girl-from-the-north-country-marlowe-theatre-canterbury-and-touring/
