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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Nick Ahad

The Good Person of Szechwan review – Brecht’s parable gets a bold revamp

Never less than entertaining … Ami Tredrea in The Good Person of Szechwan.
Never less than entertaining … Ami Tredrea, centre, in The Good Person of Szechwan. Photograph: Manuel Harlan

The success of Everything Everywhere All At Once might have shown that the Oscars are moving towards being not #SoWhite, but the lack of recognition for the film at the Baftas also highlighted that British artistic life is still at least a few steps behind America in terms of recognising talent of colour.

Anthony Lau’s bold, kaleidoscopic production for Sheffield Theatres shows how all our lives are enriched when the multiplicity of our artists is recognised and valued. Dundee-born of Chinese heritage, Lau draws on the cultural palette of his upbringing for this never less than entertaining new staging of Bertolt Brecht’s 1941 parable.

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