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Theatre review: Gaslight / Old Vic, London by Michael Billington

Old Vic, LondonBilled as a "Victorian thriller", Patrick Hamilton's Gaslight was written in 1938. But it is that rare thing: a re-creation of an old form which works in its own terms. And it was fascinating to see Peter Gill's fine production silence the audience's mocking laughter and generate a creepily atmospheric tension.I think the mild mirth was undeserved because, from the start, Hamilton plunges us into a wor…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:04AM on January 3, 2017

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