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Orpheus Descending review " Tennessee Williams' melodrama back from the dead by Michael Billington

Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonHattie Morahan and Seth Numrich help breathe new life into Williams' strange and clumsy southern gothic How best to describe Tennessee Williams' strange play? It is an antique melodrama that portrays the American south as a gothic hell beset by bigotry and violence. If the piece has survived its failure in 1957, it is largely through the opportunities it offers to actors and, in this c…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM on May 16, 2019

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