High Noon play review: New ground for the West End's Westerns

High Noon: a Western on the West End with stand-offs, shoot-outs and Billy Crudup? Yes please

Hollywood’s Eric Roth has written his first play. It’s an adaptation of the classic Western High Noon and it brings all the thrills of the genre typically played out on screen to the stage. Saddle up

High Noon play review: New ground for the West End's Westerns

High Noon review and star rating: ★★ Westerns feel ripe for the stage, although very few have been staged as plays. The musicals are famous West End fodder: Oklahoma! was given a provocative, horny reimagining at the Young Vic in 2022, but while High Noon has some musical numbers courtesy of Bruce Springsteen’s back catalogue, the idea here is to play with silence and shadow: can the tension of one of the most classic ever Westerns, the 1952 mov…