| Michael Billington reviews The Coronation - four out of five stars | |
| Last Edit: singleticket 01:26 am EDT 05/08/23 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 01:18 am EDT 05/08/23 | |
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| And comes out as a Royalist of a kind: Speaking as someone who supports the Shavian argument that monarchy is a bulwark against dictatorship, I found it a dignified occasion and a reminder that, as a nation, we seem to be infinitely better at staging public spectacles than at governing the country. Hitler hated the Hapsburgs and persecuted them but Franco restored the Spanish Monarchy. Mussolini also kept the monarchy of Victor Emmanuel III intact. It was only after the war that the monarchy was abolished in Italy and it became a Democratic Republic. So a dictator and a monarchy can get along just fine together. Though I put up a serious resistance I ended up watching the Coronation in YouTube clips and loved every ritualized second of it. I agree with Billington that it was touching. Charles looked like a sad old dog that had finally gotten his day. |
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| Link | The Coronation review – immaculately rehearsed, touching and Shakespearean |
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