Orpheus Descending " review
Royal Exchange, ManchesterThis wild confection of southern belle pettiness, redneck malevolence and racist viciousness takes pretty much every trope of the deep south, laces them with poetic metaphor and whips them into a gasp-eliciting melodrama of mythic proportions. Tennessee Williams's first version of this play, Battle of Angels, bombed in 1940. The retitled, rewritten 1957 version had a mixed reception. Its sym…
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