Because there is no make up.” If you’ve already seen the exquisitely homespun musical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which is previewing in the West End after seven years of development ...

In the legendary short story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles a man who ages in reverse. Jared Franz, an economist at fund giant Capital Group, says that ...

A labour of love that has worked its way slowly to the West End over the five years since it debuted at Southwark Playhouse, at its best Jethro Compton’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is ...

Before seeing The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on stage, I was, like many, familiar with the story of the man who ages backwards. However, it is not so much from F Scott Fitzgerald’s story as ...

“It’s all just a matter of time,” sing the chorus, as they spin around the stage in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The line rings true on many levels in this wildly improbable yet ...

To age in reverse, like Benjamin Button in F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1922 yarn, illuminates little in and of itself – because it’s the opposite of anyone’s experience, empathy’s hardly a given.