Barbican, London With dazzling virtuosity, this Complicite/Schaubühne staging of Stefan Zweig's novel brilliantly evokes a doomed romance and the imminent horror of warBalzac, about whom Stefan Zweig wrote an excellent book, once claimed that "pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker". I wonder if that phrase echoed in Zweig's mind since it permeates his 1939 novel Beware of Pity, which Simon McBurney has turned int…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM on February 10, 2017