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Theatre

Yanks buy stacks of tickets in the West End. Why is Made in Dagenham so rude to them?

Plus: let’s not restrict the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse to Jacobean bloodbaths like ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore. Let’s stage gigs there too

15 November 2014

9:00 AM

15 November 2014

9:00 AM

Made in Dagenham: the Musical

Adelphi Theatre, until 28 March 2015

‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, until7 December

Go slow at Dagenham. The musical based on the film about a pay dispute in the 1960s starts as a sluggish mire of twee simplicities. We’re in Essex. Grumbling Cockney wage slaves inhabit cramped but spick-and-span council flats. Russet-cheeked kiddiwinkies are scolded and cosseted by blousy matriarchs married to emotionally reticent beer guts.

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