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Theatre

Is London's West End Jewish enough for David Baddiel’s musical The Infidel?

Plus: East is East is one of the gems of the theatrical repertoire, especially in this near-flawless Theatre Royal Stratford East production

25 October 2014

9:00 AM

25 October 2014

9:00 AM

The Infidel — The Musical

Theatre Royal Stratford East, until 2 November

East is East

Trafalgar Studios, until 3 January 2015

David Baddiel has turned his movie, The Infidel, into a musical. The set-up is so contrived and clumsy that it has a sweetness all its own. A golden-hearted London cabbie, named Mahmoud, discovers that he was adopted at birth and that his real parents were Jewish. This strikes him as intriguing rather than alarming, and he starts to investigate Judaism with the sort of disinterested curiosity of a man taking up astronomy after inheriting a telescope and a star-chart from an eccentric uncle.

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