{"id":70260,"date":"2018-12-06T14:53:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T13:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/12\/06\/fiddler-on-the-roof-review-trevor-nunns-magnificent-revival\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T14:53:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T13:53:56","slug":"fiddler-on-the-roof-review-trevor-nunns-magnificent-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=70260","title":{"rendered":"Fiddler on the Roof review \u2013 Trevor Nunn&#039;s magnificent revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonWith antisemitism on the rise, Tevye\u2019s struggles with the tsar\u2019s 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\u2019s magnificent revival amplifies, the show daringly contrasts lightness and darkness. With the Russian tsar\u2019s 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&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2018\/dec\/06\/fiddler-on-the-roof-review-trevor-nunn-menier-chocolate-factory-london\" target=\"_blank\">Fiddler on the Roof review \u2013 Trevor Nunn&#039;s magnificent revival<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonWith antisemitism on the rise, Tevye\u2019s struggles with the tsar\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}