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Evening Standard
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Nick Curtis

Passing Strange at the Young Vic review: a rock-gig musical with undeniable verve and brio

Style and swagger mask a lack of substance in this semi-autobiographical 2008 rock-gig musical from American writer-musician Stew, about a young black man trying to find himself as a person and an artist.

A charismatic Giles Terera fronts a tight three-piece band, working through a variety of song genres and passing fondly ironic commentary on the picaresque journey of the character known only as the Youth (Keenan Munn-Francis) to a form of enlightenment.

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