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Damned by Despair " review by Michael Billington

Olivier, LondonI have little doubt that this 1625 play about saints and sinners by the Spanish monk Tirso de Molina is a masterpiece, but it would sit more easily in a smaller space, and Bijan Sheibani's production looks undercooked compared to the visual banquet created by Stephen Daldry in his 1991 version at London's Gate.Molina presents us with a dramatic diptych. On one side, you have Paulo: a zealous anchorite …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:50AM on October 11, 2012

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