Time Out gives Romantics Anonymous four out of five stars

Here is what Time Outs Holly Williams had to say about the show:

"Emma Rice's final production at the globe is this big-hearted musical about two shy chocaholics

You might expect Emma Rice’s departure from the Globe to leave a bad taste in the mouth, but her final show couldn’t be sweeter. A life-affirming treat, ‘Romantics Anonymous’ is a musical adaptation of the 2010 French film ‘Les Émotifs Anonymes’ about two painfully shy chocolate-makers who fall in love, with a pretty score from Christopher Dimon and Michale Kooman.

Rice’s work always shows big-hearted affection for the underdog (think of the chorus of the unloved in ‘Tristan & Yseult’), and so it proves here: Angelique is a young woman with a genius for making chocolates, but she’s so timid, she faints when people look at her; Jean-Rene runs an ailing chocolate factory, but he’s so awkward he can barely make conversation.

The musical proves the ideal medium for the unspeakably shy: whimsical piano and woodwind-led songs give voice to the characters’ churning inner turmoil. While ‘Romantics Anonymous’ is very funny, it will also feel wincingly familiar to anyone who’s ever hidden in a toilet out of nerves."

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