The Ballad of Hattie and James review – a musical friendship comes back into tune

The Ballad of Hattie and James review – a musical friendship comes back into tune

Kiln theatre, London
Sophie Thompson and Charles Edwards are delightful as the unlikely pair thrown together by a school production as teenagers and reunited late in life

Music, says Hattie, is supposed to be a consolation. But in the opening moments of this play, it feels more like an exorcism, as she sits down at a piano in St Pancras International station and gives a performance that goes instantly viral.

In Samuel Adamson’s latest work, two friends reconnect late in life, and what follows is a journey backward and forward through their timeline, exploring the love of music that brought them together and the events that have pushed them apart.

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