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Birdland review Ceaselessly inventive critique of rock stardom by Michael Billington

Mega-fame and limitless cash can turn a man into a monster, and Simon Stephens's new play excellently evokes its hero's spiritually shrunken worldNo one will be surprised to learn, from Simon Stephens's new play, that the mega-fame and virtually limitless money that accompany rock stardom have a destabilising effect on the pysche. But, even if the message is familiar, the writing takes you inside the scrambled brain …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AM on April 10, 2014

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