“If love really does change everything, perhaps it should have started with the plot which will baffle some new audience members, but those who remember the original will undoubtedly revel in seeing it return in a reworked and modernised production, with the return of Michael Ball to Aspects of Love being a wonderful full circle theatrical moment”
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I went into this musical expecting pure gush, but instead it’s a perplexing production as full of space and feeling as it is conflicted messaging. I’m not quite sure what it has to say but I don’t think I need to — it speaks a language that’s not reducible to the everyday mundanity of prose. While perhaps not everyone’s cup of tea, there’s a joyful process of musical discovery here, which, though incredibly strange, certainly bears the hallmarks of its creator’s style and preoccupations.
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"Punctuated with some funny moments, this story of love and heartache across three generations feels very of its time....you’ll be rewarded with an absolutely spectacular rendition of ‘Love Changes Everything’ whilst taking comfort in the fact that we’ve all moved on."
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"This production represents a gamble, too, and whatever one's reaction to the intractable nuttiness of the material, something about it - rather like a bygone, life-defining love affair - proves impossible to dismiss."
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"I don’t want to overreact to what is basically a pretty silly musical with nice tunes and solid performances...Ultimately the story of ‘Aspects of Love’ is probably best viewed as a relic of a different era, when people did actually cop off with their teenage cousins and the British were only just fumblingly acknowledging that sex was a thing."
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"This revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1989 hit musical may not quite sweep you off your feet – but it still beguiles"
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"A story of postwar, would-be bohemians engaged in cross-generation, borderline-incestuous romances within their own family and social circle, its characters are thin and dislikeable, its plot preposterous."
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"Jonathan Kent’s production doesn’t seem that interested in emphasising the darkness of this story. Instead, it’s laden with distracting digital projections... Some people will find it charmingly bohemian. I found it all irredeemably icky, even if – much like herpes – its tunes won’t fail to linger."
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