Emil and the Detectives: Theatre review - 'a funny, wishful Christmas show'
You get the exhilarating impression that there must be as many children on stage as there are in the audience at Emil and the Detectives, this year's Christmas show at the National. And that's as it should be because Erich Kastner's much-loved 1929 novel " adapted here by Carl Miller " is a funny,wishful tale about the solidarity and resourcefulness of the gangs of children who join forces to outmanoeuvre the nef…