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Date seen: Tuesday 22nd April 2025 matinee. This was a preview performance
'Power of Ensemble'
Overall Max Webster's production is a triumph with a towering lead from Simon Russell Beale.
On the night I see the production, an incident left the actress playing Lavinia needing a preventative trip to hospital to ensure she was ok, after a longer than usual interval the Assistant Director Kwame Owusu stepped in and with little or no rehearsal played the role in the second half.
Fuller review to follow however some thoughts:
- Blood is heavily used but very stylised
- All actors become the Chorus of sorts
- The Nurse dies and then comes back as the Goth leading in Aaron
- All of the dead return as the Goths
- The text is altered so it ends with Aaron being buried alive
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