But there's an over-arching earnestness to the storytelling that left me largely unmoved and uninvolved. Faithful readers who just want to be reminded of a well-loved book may find more nourishment.
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smart stagecraft, skimpy script...Melly Still brings her singular theatricality to bestselling novel on stage
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Here's a charming, simple, slightly baggy staging of Louis de Bernières’s 1994 bestseller.
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Bravo, too, to the sheer theatrical nature of it all, the attention to detail and the emphasis on surprise and spectacle, bound together by some moving musical moments.
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...Captain Corelli's Mandolin would satisfy any desire for watching epic stories on a smaller scale. But ultimately, this adaptation doesn't bring anything new to a story told many times before.
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Still, as efforts go this is beyond valiant and if [it] doesn’t have the weight of the book, it’s still a rich and ambitious piece of theatre.
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Director Melly Still manages to both stay faithful to the original and inject it with freshness, while Rona Munro’s adaptation distils key themes...
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Louis de Bernières adaptation that’s liable to bring a lump to the throat.
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