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Jonathan Bailey with Darren Clark and Jethro Compton with the best new musical at the Olivier Awards (April 6, 2025) [x]

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Jonathan Bailey with Darren Clark and Jethro Compton winners of the best new musical at the Olivier Awards (April 6, 2025)

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Jonathan Bailey with Darren Clark and Jethro Compton winners of the best new musical at the Olivier Awards (April 6, 2025)

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Jonathan Bailey with Darren Clark and Jethro Compton winners of the best new musical at the Olivier Awards (April 6, 2025)

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Jonathan Bailey with Darren Clark and Jethro Compton winners of the best new musical at the Olivier Awards (April 6, 2025)

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"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - the Musical" Soars on an Irish Wind in London's West End

#frontmezzjunkies was in #London's #WestEnd and reviewed: #TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton the #newmusical #JethroCompton #DarrenClark #MarkAspinall w/ #JohnDagleish #ClareFoster #BenjaminButtonMusical @benjaminbuttonmusical @ambassadorstheatre

Clare Foster and John Dagleish (center) with the cast of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in London’s West End. Photo by Marc Brenner. The London Theatre Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – the Musical By Ross With an unexpected Irish flair, in both music and storytelling, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – The Musical comes to vivid life on a foggy wharf lit up by flashlights…

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - the Musical" Soars on an Irish Wind in London's West End

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Jethro Compton presents Sirenia

Jethro Compton presents Sirenia

Jethro Compton Jethro Compton Productions C nova Rating: *** Review by Graeme Strachan (more…)

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Jethro Compton presents Sirenia

Sirenia is on at C Nova until 31st, at 19.25 and 20.25 each day. Tickets are £7.50-£13.50. We saw the show at 19.25 on the 5th.

Caitlin

People have been banging on at me to see a Jethro for ages now and I never have because I’m a cheapskate and it all seems a bit much for me. This ticket was free (thanks Sophie!) so we went. 

It was a good decision. Seeing a Jethro is basically not like seeing a Fringe show at all because they’re site-specific with a decent set rather than your usual students shuffling tables through a curtain. Like, normally I don’t even care that much about set but the inside of a lighthouse (is there a real word for that?) for Sirenia was amazing, from the impressively realistic clutter to the backlit shutters to indicate the weather outside.

Buuuuut when the best part of your show is the set, you know you haven’t quite nailed it. Sirenia is clunky in its writing - scene changes are covered by expositional radio news reports, and the parallels in the story might as well have neon signs lit over them as they’re so heavy-handedly pointed out to us. Plus, the ‘twist’ at the end was a bit underwhelming. 

Rob Pomfret does a stunning turn as lighthouse-keeper Isaac; he’s fraught with emotion, and plays perfectly to the size of the tiny room. Evie Tyler, as the mysterious girl he brings in from the storm, is at her best when shivering and holding on for life and a little grating whenever she has more to say. That said, I’m fairly sure any melodrama on her part was down to an unclear character rather than lack of ability. It is Jethro, after all. 

Joe

I mean, yeah. That pretty much covers it: however gorgeous your set and tech (those shuttered windows, nnnnngghh) it’s a bit of a waste of time if you’re gonna use it to news-report-exposition your way through a predictable story.

That said, my current obsession with darkness in theatre found plenty to enjoy once the power died in the lighthouse (no, I don’t think there is a word) leaving the only light sources a torch on the floor and the occasionally-passing beacon outside the shutters. In any larger space you’d have lost everything in the dark, but when you’ve got a dozen people squished onto benches less than a metre from your face, a bit of torchlight sets a beautifully cinematic scene in which for Pomfret to tell his tragic should-have-saved-her-but-didn’t tale.