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The Duchess of Malfi; I Dreamed a Dream; Vera Vera Vera – review

Old Vic, London; Theatre Royal, Newcastle; Royal Court, LondonJohn Webster was for Bernard Shaw the "Tussaud laureate": a playwright of waxy gore. Today he can look like the Damien Hirst dramatist. Hirst's diamond-studded skull could be an emblem for The Duchess of Malfi, in which glitter covers corruption and whose most memorably shining lines – "Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young" – greet a garrotting.Jamie Lloyd's production attends with too reverent a slowness to this grisl...

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23:06 on March 31 2012

The Duchess of Malfi; I Dreamed a Dream; Vera Vera Vera – review

Guardian Music — Old Vic, London; Theatre Royal, Newcastle; Royal Court, LondonJohn Webster was for Bernard Shaw the "Tussaud laureate": a playwright of waxy gore. Today he can look like ... more info
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