The timing is certainly on the nose – this dance show set to the music of Sting returns to the West End just as vicious rhetoric around migrants ramps up around the world. First seen in 2020, Message In A Bottle is a jukebox dancical about a family in crisis with a geopolitical setting. It’s unlikely but impactful.
Kate Prince’s hip hop dance shows and her choreography for musicals like Everyone’s Talking About Jamie all tend to skew optimistic – they motor on bounce and buoyancy. This story largely follows a different track – beginning in a nameless land, rent by civil war and following a loving family who are scattered by the conflict.
