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The Plague review " ingenious update of Camus' chilling fable by Michael Billington

Arcola, LondonNeil Bartlett asks what this 1947 allegory of Nazi occupation means today in a striking production as focused on optimism as on despairAlbert Camus' novel La Peste was published in 1947 and instantly seized on as an allegory of the Nazi occupation. Now, Neil Bartlett has adapted and directed it with great ingenuity, expanding the novel's technique of multiple narration. It is a compelling 90-minute expe…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM on April 17, 2017

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