I think this play should be seen in spite of its weaknesses. It brings relevance to today’s problems, today’s world, even if it is set more than 90 years ago. This is a play for our times.
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LOS ANGELES An enlisted man strikes out at his commanding officer during wartime and is promptly sent to the brig. The charge is mutiny. This may sound like the germ of Herman Melville’s novella Billy Budd, memorably turned into an all-male opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by the Eng.