Kristina | Theatre

Royal Albert Hall, LondonYou can see why Abba's Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson keep plugging away at musical theatre. If you've sold 375m albums, you must start thinking, pop-wise, you have no worlds left to conquer – hence this one-off, semi-staged English-language revival of their 1995 epic, mercifully edited down to around two hours from a terrifying-sounding four-hour Swedish original, crisply titled Kristina från Duvemåla.Based around the novels of Vilhelm Moberg, it shares ...

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