Teeth ’n’ Smiles review – Self Esteem makes a mesmeric rock star but the drama doesn’t dazzle

Duke of York’s theatre, London Fifty years since David Hare’s play was first staged, Rebecca Lucy Taylor is inspired casting as a singer who refuses to go out without a bang David Hare’s 1975 play Teeth ’n’ Smiles captured the melancholy mood of a generation as it looked back on the lost counter-cultural idealism of 1969. It is a play full of endings: a rock band teetering at the close of its platform-heeled life, frontwoman Maggie and songwriter Arthur packing up their relationship, and Euro...

By Arifa Akbar