It is usually a jukebox musical audience that are encouraged to “dance in the aisles”. In Jamie Lloyd’s 1990s clubland twist on Shakespeare, the ushers are doing it before the curtain has even gone up. It is a sign of things to come, along with the throwback soundtrack and the giddy swirl of disco lights.
Taylor Dayne’s Tell It to My Heart kicks off proceedings and a shower of pink confetti rains down. This is a thoroughly weird and absolutely wonderful re-conceptualisation, turning Shakespeare’s comedy, which narrowly swerves tragedy, into an old school house party cum modern romcom.
