Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Gripping slice of old-fashioned entertainment: Old Vic’s Camp Siegfried reviewed

Plus: a play at the Cockpit that every teenager and student in the country should see

Luke Thallon and Patsy Ferran in Old Vic's Camp Siegfried. Photo: Manuel Harlan
  • Comments

  • Camp Siegfried

    Old Vic, until 30 October

  • Penetration

    Cockpit, until 9 October

Boy meets girl. Girl gets pregnant. Then the entire world collapses. That’s the story of Camp Siegfried, which is set in the late 1930s at a holiday park in Long Island where German-Americans come to enjoy the outdoor life and to celebrate their ancestral culture.

The boy is a strapping 17-year-old who chats up an awkward geeky girl with little sexual experience.

Already a subscriber? Log in

Keep reading with a free trial

Subscribe and get your first month of online and app access for free. After that it’s just £1 a week.

There’s no commitment, you can cancel any time.

Or

Unlock more articles

REGISTER

Read next

Trending

Rod Liddle

Does no one want the Red Wall voters?

Rod Liddle
From the magazine
There was outrage in some sections of the Labour party today after its leader, Sir Keir Starmer, praised Satan. Writing in the Mephistophelian Clarion, a publication with a high proportion of readers who are lycanthropes, vampires, imps, goblins and daemons, Sir Keir said that the ‘Prince of Darkness’ had sometimes been ‘mis-understood’ by the left.

Because you read about america

Also by Lloyd Evans

Latest

Comments

Don't miss out

Join the conversation with other Spectator readers. Subscribe to leave a comment.

Already a subscriber? Log in