This is Fiddler as London has never seen it before: revamped, refreshed and al fresco. American director Jordan Fein places the stirring 1964 Broadway musical by Joseph Stein (book), Jerry Bock (music) and Sheldon Harnick (lyrics) about life in a Jewish stetl circa 1905, on an abstract set, where a ski-jump field of wheat seems to have peeled up from the floor and everyone is prey to the elements.
His cast, led by Broadway regular Adam Dannheisser as Tevye the milkman and Lara Pulver as his wife Golde, use their own accents. Most of them have terrific singing voices and those that don’t exude character.
