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A Tale of Two Cities review " the Reign of Terror clashes with today's refugee crisis by Michael Billington

Regent's Park Open Air theatre, LondonCharles Dickens' 1859 novel simply does not lend itself to a modern-day reinterpretation featuring border police and demonstrationsIt is part of the vanity of our age that we assume all works of art are ultimately about us. Matthew Dunster's adaptation of Dickens' 1859 French Revolution novel is set in a world of refugee camps, border police and video footage of popular demos. Th…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM on July 14, 2017

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