Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonWith antisemitism on the rise, Tevye’s struggles with the tsar’s thugs are powerfully topical in this note-perfect productionAlthough much-loved and often revived, Fiddler on the Roof has been charged with excessive sentimentality and piety. As the poor Russian-Jewish milkman Tevye attempts to marry off five daughters, several of the songs have the form of prayers, and a startling percentage of the dialogue is delivered upwards.But, as Trevor Nunn’s magnificent revival amplifies, the show daringly contrasts lightness and darkness. With the Russian tsar’s thugs patrolling the shtetl of Anatevka in 1905, the romantic machinations are shadowed by exile and genocide. In an emblematic moment, a wild wedding party is interrupted by the vicious arrival of a pogrom. Continue reading…
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