‘Jimmy’s Hall’ review: Movement presented as political dissent
Jimmy Gralton was infamously deported from his own country for giving his community a space for dancing and revolutionary ideas. There’s more room for the former than the latter in the Abbey’s handsome, musical and nostalgic telling of his tale
The show suggests that dancing really is Gralton’s cure for everything
At an early point in this handsome, lively and sonorous stage adaptation of Ken Loach’s recent film, one character relates an anecdote that is nowhere in its source material: the sad experience of destitute Irish potato pickers in Scotland during the 1930s.