But I couldn’t find much of an emotional way into Ian Rickson’s production via its leads – thank the (Olympian) gods for the chorus then...Tempest and Rickson’s oft-whimsical reimagining of it tends to add to the strangeness rather than subtract from it.
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But it all feels too much, too big and too messy, with frustrating longueurs. Like the figure at its heart, Paradise is fatally flawed, but heroic none the less.
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Lesley Sharp gives a towering performance as the abandoned war veteran at the heart of Kae Tempest's stirring reimagining of Sophocles' Philoctetes.
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