Dark of the Moon

Not a dramatisation of the regrettable third Transformers film, but Dark of the Moon is, rather, a musical adaptation of the eccentric 1949 play of the same name that dramatises a spooky Applacian folk ballad. If that sounds at all familiar, it got a shot in its arm vis a vis its UK profile after being heavily featured in the plot of the stage Stranger Things prequel First Shadow. Charting love and witchcraft in a picturesque town in the Smoky Mountains, the original play by Howard D Richardson and William Berney has been adapted by Lindy Robbins, Dave Bassett and Steve Robson, and it’s directed by Georgie Rankcom.