Wilton's Music Hall, LondonOnce shunned by the British theatre, Racine is edging back into fashion. It is well worth the detour to London's East End to catch Irina Brown's modern-dress revival of this austere 1669 masterpiece, even if a few lines of Timberlake Wertenbaker's excellent new translation get lost in Wilton's echoing acoustic.Like all great dramatists, Racine anticipates modern thought. There is something …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM on October 23, 2011