The Da Vinci Code
Wolverhampton Grand Theatre and touring
On a Tuesday night just about post-Covid, mid cold snap and mid (we hope) war, the 1,200-seat Wolverhampton Grand Theatre was impressively packed. This commends the prophetic powers of Simon Friend Entertainment Ltd when the production company gambled on the type of theatre that might bring back audiences in times that were already grim before recently becoming grimmer.
The show that proved a hot ticket even on a cold night in a new cold war is The Da Vinci Code, the first stage adaptation of Dan Brown’s 2003 thriller, which sold tens of millions of copies before grossing hundreds of millions of dollars as a 2006 movie starring Tom Hanks as the celebrity “symbolist” who cracks codes – hidden in old tombs or on new bodies, from the Louvre to London – that reveal a devastating fact about the bloodline of Christ that the Catholic Church has conspired to keep secret for two millennia.