REVIEW: Passing Strange
Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten by Stew, with music by Stew and Heidi Rodewald, this 2008 Broadway production ventures itself into the 2024 Young Vic under the direction of Liesl Tommy. On a V-shaped stage resembling an indie rock concert (do they borrow it from their neighbour Machinal by the way?), the story unveils itself through a narrator (Giles Terera). The young man, referred to as "Youth" (Keenan Munn-Francis), discards his upbringing, attempts to find himself by wearing other personas to fit in, and finally matures at the price of losing a loved one. Though Munn-Francis indeed manoeuvres the character blending fragility, sincerity and perplexity, the plot remains still as dull as you might predict.
