Traverse, EdinburghTainted Love is the song that propelled former Soft Cell vocalist Marc Almond to fame in the 1980s, and in Mark Ravenhill and composer Conor Mitchell's song cycle he makes his stage debut playing a man living a tainted life in a city beset by plague. A bare hour long, the piece belongs more to a classical than a musical theatre tradition, and might work just as well sung in an intima…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:26PM on August 8, 2011