Coram Boy review " a show that buries the plot along with the foundling babies
Chichester Festival theatreThe performances are strong and the music is beautiful, but they cannot rescue this convoluted adaptation of Jamila Gavin's award-winning children's novel This adaptation of Jamila Gavin's award-winning children's novel about 18th-century foundlings plays out under an aspic glow. But beneath the handsome, period-drama optics lie ugly Georgian attitudes to poverty and dispossessed children. …