Dark of the Moon ★★

REVIEW: Dark of the Moon

Reading Time: 2 minutes ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 5. A classic forbidden love story told through a blend of country folk songs and power-house rock anthems. Dark Of The Moon marries the strings from both electric and acoustic guitar melodies to underscore the story of two outcasts. A small-town girl and a witchboy longing to be human. This is accompanied by a chorus of townsfolk, holding prejudice against the outsider …

Dark of the Moon ★★

A fresh look at an old play. Dark of the Moon, a modern musical adaptation, has been flung stylishly into the Charing Cross Theatre by Oh Mary! associate director Georgie Rankom for a colourful and contrasting two hours and forty-five minutes of country and rock’n’roll. A play from the 1940s about invisible, sex-crazed witch-people living amongst the bumpkins of the southeastern United States must clearly appear as fresh meat to the enterprising…

Dark of the Moon – Charing Cross Theatre, London

Book: Jonathan Prince Music and Lyrics: Lindy Robbins, Dave Bassett and Steve Robson Director: Georgie Rankcom Based on a 1940s play by Howard Richardson, this new musical is a hybrid affair featuring Country and Western songs for the townspeople living in Buck Creek, set in the Appalachians and heavy Rock numbers for the witches and [...] The post Dark of the Moon – Charing Cross Theatre, London appeared first on The Reviews Hub.

DARK OF THE MOON review by thespyinthestalls at Charing

DARK OF THE MOON Charing Cross Theatre ★★★ “a neat little fable, with a good deal of darkness within” The source material for the new musical, “Dark of the Moon”, goes back a long way. Originally billed as a ‘legend with music’ it opened on Broadway in 1945. That, in turn, was loosely based on English/Scottish folklore of the mid seventeenth century. ‘The Ballad of Barbara Allen’ was taken over to America by the earliest pioneers and gained the…