The Duchess (of Malfi) review " critique without context
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghZinnie Harris's narrow reworking of Webster's revenge tragedy fails to persuade Tom Piper's design sets the keynote for the play: striking, efficient and almost featureless. Upstage, a white wall rises, pierced on high by oblong windows opening on to darkness. Similarly, Zinnie Harris's reworking of John Webster's 1613(ish) revenge tragedy presents a hermetic world, shut off from external reali…