REVIEW: BRITTEN IN BROOKLYN (Wilton’s Music Hall) ★★
There’s a moment towards the end of Britten in Brooklyn in which Sadie Frost, making her stage comeback as Gypsy Rose Lee, describes how the setting and lifestyle herself and her artistic peers choose to live in is, ‘false…it doesn’t mean anything’. This somehow rings true to this production overall. Set in 1941, Benjamin Britten […]
Check out these photos of BRITTEN IN BROOKLYN which opens tonight at Wilton’s Music Hall
The bohemian lifestyle of Benjamin Britten, WH Auden, Carson McCullers and Gypsy Rose Lee in the artistic community at 7 Middagh Street starts to unravel as World War II becomes a brutal reality. Exiled in America for his beliefs and a national disgrace Benjamin Britten must decide which way his conflicted political ideals lie but […]
