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The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button review: A barnstorming life ...lived in reverse, writes PATRICK MARIMON
PATRICK MARIMON: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, based on a short story by the great American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald.
This is also the theme of the cracking new Cornish rock musical, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, based on a short story by the great American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald (which was turned into a film starring Brad Pitt back in 2008). The first part opens on a stage spare and bare but for Victorian red curtains and carpet and a few glass lamps, where Flora Spencer-Longhurst's thoroughly modern Fleur Forsyte, in daring slacks and a Twenties bob, is our narrator, looking back at the family and the tangled relationships in which she had been born. Hot and cold lighting (Alex Musgrave) and an ever-changing soundscape (Max Pappenheim) deftly whisk the action from suffocating confrontations to awkward family gatherings to romantic bluebell woods where feelings are unbuttoned.
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