Into the Whirlwind - review by Michael Billington

Noel Coward, LondonSponsored by Roman Abramovich, Moscow's Sovremennik Theatre arrived in London for a brief nine-day residence. The largely Russian-speaking first-night audience also greeted this dramatisation of Yevgenia Ginzburg's memoir of life inside a Soviet prison with cheers and bouquets. But, although this 20-year-old production offers a striking acknowledgement of the horrors of Stalinist Russia, it is only…

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