Brighton festival fringeIt's not often I find myself closeted with a naked man in a bathroom, but that's the set-up for Theatre North's theatrical excavation of Herman Melville's unfinished novella about a beautiful boy sailor whose purity cannot save him from the gallows. The homoerotic undercurrents of a story about the complexities of male desire have already been well explored in Britten's opera, but adaptor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:23PM on May 18, 2011