Gino Bartali the Unsung Hero "Hundreds will live because of you."The Cardinal Charing Cross Theatre now hosts Glory Ride the musical which I so loved at its concert showing at…
It is about Rachel Benjamin (Jill Winternitz) a Canadian Jewish school teacher from Toronto who has ambitions to be a screenwriter. She has been asked to apologise at school after offence was taken regarding her remarks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Before she has to make a decision she goes on a screenwriting course called The Retreat.
What Deborah Bruce’s play at the National Theatre does well is to explore the fall out from situations of child abuse. The damage to the children is compounded by not being believed and those closest to them, who should protect them, allying with their abuser.