Berenice " review
Donmar Warehouse, LondonRacine in English? It always poses a problem, but we're getting steadily better at it. And director Josie Rourke and translator Alan Hollinghurst come up with a radical solution to this 1670 tragedy: they treat the characters as real people rather than vehicles for oratory. The intimacy of the space adds to the impression that we are eavesdropping on a human drama, rather than a costumed poetr…