“I am the Duchess of Malfi still,” says the stoic Duchess under torture. It’s a famous line in John Webster’s Jacobean tragedy. But at Trafalgar Theatre, the audience is no longer watching John Webste ...
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Sophocles’ Oedipus was first performed in Greece in 429 BC. 2,500 years on, it still has the power to shock. Oedipus does not know he has killed his father and marred his mother. The great thing about ...
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Joyously brilliant! Wow! The heavenly magic of Britten’s unique music, played and sung to perfection, marries so superbly with the laugh-out-loud comedy and fun of the piece and all is delivered ...
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Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, published in 1898, is one of the best ghost stories. Chilling and elusive, it has subtle psychological depths. Oscar Wilde thought it “the most wonderful, lurid, p ...
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