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This play is a wonder: Bach & Sons at the Bridge Theatre reviewed

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Pravessh Rana as Frederick The Great and Simon Russell Beale as J.S. Bach in Nina Raine's Bach & Sons at the Bridge. Image: Manuel Harlan 
issue 10 July 2021

Bach & Sons opens with the great composer tinkling away on a harpsichord while a toddler screeches his head off in the nursery. The script becomes a broader portrait of a richly creative and competitive family where everyone is bright, loud, witty, inventive, good-natured and affectionate. Bach teaches the elements of composition to his gifted sons.

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