London PalladiumThe Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical comes to the West End with fine acting, handsome staging and inescapable overtones of western imperialismThis 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein show may be a Broadway classic but it presents a constant difficulty: it seems to endorse the idea of the civilising influence of the west on the barbarian east. Bartlett Sher's much-lauded Lincoln Center pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PM on July 3, 2018