Jack and the Beanstalk review " bright and cheery but lacking heart
Coliseum, OldhamWhat used to be one boy's coming-of-age struggle with a tyrannous ogre is now a free-for-all Boisterous, full-throttled and cheery it may be, but it's hard to locate the heart in this Jack and the Beanstalk. You would expect to find it in Sam Glen's Jack, the uncertain child gullible enough to sell a cow for a bag of beans. But although he has no trouble enlisting the children into "Jack's army," he s…