29 March 2018, The Tablet

Passion and drama: Tom Morris' Messiah for Bristol Old Vic is shown in cinemas


The suffering of the Passion enacted

Passion and drama: Tom Morris' Messiah for Bristol Old Vic is shown in cinemas
 

Tom Morris’ staging for the Bristol Old Vic, first seen in 2013 and shown in cinemas earlier this week, locates its drama where Messiah most resembles a Bach Passion: the unflinching gaze on suffering, the chorus of malevolent actors as well as grief- and guilt-stricken onlookers, the solo protagonists reflecting, hectoring, lamenting.

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