Most of us have had the experience of listening to the radio and feeling that the producer (or, these days, playlist algorithm) is scheduling only music that we would have chosen. And, for those of us whose “Top 10” dramatists include Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) and Arthur Miller (1915-2005), this was a year in which London’s playhouses were beautifully playing our tune.Getting in ahead of Miller’s impending birth centenary, visiting international directors brought thrilling new perspectives to the soundalike venues in Waterloo. At the Young Vic, Belgian director Ivo van Hove’s brutal, blood-drenched, modern-dress version of A View from the Bridge returned the drama of racial and sexual suspicion to its roots in Greek tragedy and won a deserved London West End r
30 December 2014, The Tablet
Race, religion and revelation
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