It’s so rare to get to come back to a show and look at it with fresh eyes,” says director Jordan Fein, “to deepen things, to reexplore things, to question what we did, even if we end up back where we started.”
It was in the heat of last summer that a rippling field of wheat first sprang up in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, surrounding the actors in Fein’s earthy new take on Fiddler on the Roof. After a healthy crop of five-star reviews and 13 Olivier nominations, it became the fastest-selling show the theatre had ever seen. Now, this Jewish shtetl is being uprooted and transplanted into the cavernous Barbican Theatre before it sets off on a UK tour.
