REVIEW: Beautiful Little Fool

REVIEW: Beautiful Little Fool

Rating: 5 out of 5. An assured and thoughtful new musical that succeeds not by reinventing its story, but by choosing carefully where to stand within it. Beautiful Little Fool at Southwark Playhouse Borough is an assured and thoughtful new musical that succeeds not by reinventing its story, but by choosing carefully where to stand within it. At its core, this is a retelling of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s marriage, a narrative that theatre an…

Beautiful Little Fool ★★★★★

Beautiful Little Fool, a new musical, tells the tale of the relationship of legendary writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (David Hunter) and his equally legendary wife, artist Zelda Fitzgerald (at this performance, Amy Parker for the indisposed Hannah Corneau) – starting from their very first meeting – and it doesn’t stray away from the darkness. F. Scott died in relative anonymity, while Zelda spent much of her life locked away in brutal mental health i…