Why the Whales Came, performed by the British Youth Music Theatre, was reviewed at The Mack, Mountview, London.
Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
It is very moving to see a company of more than 30 talented, well directed young people in a story as powerful as this one.
British Youth Music Theatre specialises in creating new work and this show was developed at a summer camp and performed in an earlier version in Plymouth last year.
We’re in the Scilly Islands in 1914 where the self sufficient people, who rarely travel, avoid the island they think is cursed. Inevitably two children go there but are protected by the mysterious, reclusive Birdman.
Lonely eccentrics who turn out to be kind …
Read the rest of this review at Musical Theatre Review: https://musicaltheatrereview.com/british-youth-music-theatre-why-the-whales-came/
