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For the Love of the Nightingale by Theatre Works is savage yet timely
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For the Love of the Nightingale by Theatre Works is savage yet timely
By Cameron Woodhead
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★★★
Live theatre has restarted this week at Theatre Works thanks to a COVID-safe novelty. Shows are performed inside the Glasshouse, with the audience perched in Perspex booths around a central arena.
As the Roman poet Ovid put it in
Metamorphoses: Great trouble is inventive, and ingenuity arises in difficult times. And this unique staging is certainly an inspired instance of it.