The musical can bring together all the stimuli of our senses and concentrate them within our imagination to bring about an experience that lasts a lifetime.The Hatpin achieved just that
The Short + Sweet Gala Final and Awards Night was the climax of this year’s bumper installment of what’s billed as “The biggest little play festival in the world”.
In the care of Pinchgut Opera’s director, Erin Helyard, this music, formulaic as it indeed is in some respects, sprang off the page into an experience rich in emotions.
Blind faith and rational belief are always sparring partners in dramatic conflict and so it is here with the power play tinged with superstition and salaciousness.
Contradiction, conundrum, conflict, racism, misogyny and homophobia run through this play like a main circuit cable snaking through a moral minefield of explosive allegation.