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Article: THE CHANGELING By Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, Barbican; first night review.(Theater review)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- May 16, 2006
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Byline: QUENTIN LETTS
HOW unwittingly perfect. Here is a great English tragedy, all about 'antick dispositions', or what we might nowadays call airs, graces and self-delusion.
It is powerfully acted. The lines are spoken with clarity and clout.
Yet the thing is damn nearly wrecked because the director, Declan Donnellan, got it into his self-important head that the normal auditorium at the Barbican theatre was not good enough for him.
Bloated with public funds (eg British Council), he had to go and fiddle.
Excuse me, but what was that about airs and graces? What they've done is move the whole thing into the gubbins of the ...