Southwark Playhouse, LondonCorneille called this play, written in 1636 when he was barely 30, a "strange monster". Ever since a fabulous Giorgio Strehler production in Paris in 1984, however, it has percolated the modern repertory. Now it gets a perfectly good revival by Sebastian Harcombe that uses Tony Kushner's free adaptation and helps to explain why the play, with its obsession with appearance and reality, seems…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM on August 27, 2012