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A controversial historian wants to help us better understand te Tiriti.
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A controversial historian wants to help us better understand te Tiriti.
Filled with a couple of operas’ worth of tragedy, Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles is not the likeliest source of inspiration for a dramatic circus show but Ockham's Razor are here to prove us wrong.
This company’s skills cleverly animate the characters in a dreamlike production that does not blunt the novel’s tragedy
The company Ockham's Razor takes its name from a principle devised by the medieval philosopher, William of Ockham. Very simply, it posits that, given the choice of two explanations, you should always choose the simpler one. It is sometimes known as the "law of parsimony": the razor shaving away the unnecessary to present the essence. And that is exactly what the company has done with Thomas Hardy's greatest heroine, Tess of the d'Urbevilles, in Tess, currently at the Peacock Theatre. Now, given that the Peacock is part of the Sadlers' Wells stable, you might imagi...
Their latest show, a reimagining of Thomas Hardy’s 1891 novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles, has drama and emotion aplenty, writes Debra Craine