Evita director Jamie Lloyd: I wanted to capture the 'energy' of a political rally – look at Trump's re-election campaign

Evita director Jamie Lloyd said he wanted to capture the “energy” of a political rally in his high-octane Regent’s Park production.

The musical, following the lives of Argentine dictator Juan Perón and his wife Eva, sees the stage of the Open Air Theatre lit by flames and the audience showered in confetti.

Lloyd said the original 1978 show, written by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, still “taps into the truth” of modern-day politics. “They made a song in the show Oh What A Circus, and that’s been our impulse with pyrotechnics and confetti cannons,” he said.

Lloyd, who won acclaim directing Harold Pinter’s Betrayal in the West End, added: “It’s as if it has the energy of a pop concert but also of a political rally. Look at the energy when Donald Trump has been back doing his rallies for re-election.”