Royal Exchange, ManchesterSergei Eisenstein's famed 1923 staging of Aleksandr Ostrovsky's satire featured clowning, performers swinging on ropes and acrobatics. Paul Hunter's revival, which relocates the play to a 1960s Moscow oddly in thrall to decadent western pop culture, may not draw upon the circus, but it is no less strenuous. It's more comic caper than hard-hitting social critique.The play focuses on the poor,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:53PM on July 18, 2013