Zorro (London) London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (5)
See it if You want a no bells and whistles show that will entertain you - the show is creative for the small space it's in
Don't see it if You don't like whimsical and want a strong storyline.
See it if if you like predictable story points
Don't see it if you like clear musicals with logical scoring, character development and cannot tolerate interesting takes on accents.
See it if Very underspend. Didn't no about it and only booked at last minute. Very uplifting and powerful production and inspiraling
Don't see it if If your used to more upper-class things
See it if We saw it years ago ,but had forgotten the story, a bit different with a central stage. Good fun evening
Don't see it if You would have to be really miserable to not enjoy this show
See it if Love the gipsy kings' music, flamenco dancing and the Zorro franchise
Don't see it if If you want a fast-paced and musical with tension
Critic Reviews (5)
A young cast of actor-musician-flamenco dancers clatter enthusiastically through a tale that’s jokily slapdash one minute, breast-beatingly po-faced the next. They bring more polish to the show than it deserves. There are more Hispanic clichés than you can shake a castanet at.
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Durham’s production is a celebration of storytelling and he has gathered a diverse and multi-talented cast to pull it together. Benjamin Purkiss has the presence and stamina to master the title role. His Diego is a quick-witted clown, but in hero mode as Zorro, Purkiss oozes charisma.
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Okay, it's not Les Mis for all the parallels, but there’s plenty of scope for fun and a bit of exotic otherness – and, it must be said, wobbly Spanish accents. Some of it works, some of it doesn’t, which, if you’re going for a runtime of well over two and a half hours, is hardly unexpected.
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And yet, despite some dramatic shortcomings, this stage version of Zorro delivers entirely what is expected of it: epic romance, stimulating swordplay and an almost unsettlingly heavy dose of onstage fire, all while musicians among the cast punctuate it with European musical flair – I doubt audiences will be leaving the Charing Cross Theatre dissatisfied after watching this masked musical.
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The whiff of hamminess is never absent from the Zorro films and here both script and performances are endearingly alive to a sense of the ridiculous...The problem is that, aside from swaggering masculinity, the characters of the duelling antagonists feel more flimsily set up than the plywood facades of a spaghetti western.
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