At the close of the first act of The Last Ship – the musical conceived by Sting that just opened on Broadway – a group of workers charge the fence that locks them out of the shutdown shipyard where they had worked all their lives. It feels and looks as if they are bolting straight into the audience, and that image perfectly captures The Last Ship’s visceral impact. We feel both their rage and their frustration as palpably as a boot in the chest. Read more…