Philistines the Tempest Cymbeline Other Theatre

The Sunday Telegraph London (June 03, 2007)

Author: Tim Auld

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Philistines

Lyttelton Theatre, London SE1 (020 74521 3000) in rep to 18 August

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Philistines the Tempest Cymbeline Other Theatre

This is a glorious production of Gorky's savage indictment of petty bourgeois values, and in Andrew Upton's assured version, the play feels as fresh today as when it was first put on in 1902. Back then, when Tsarist Russia was beginning to fall apart, the play was mutilated by the censor and cavalry were stationed outsid...

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