York Theatre RoyalA stunning cast and unshowy direction do full justice to Bennett's far-reaching play imagining a meeting between Auden and BrittenIt's 1972. To the Oxford college rooms of the poet WH Auden comes an unexpected visitor, the composer Benjamin Britten, who is preparing an opera on the novella Death in Venice by Auden's father-in-law, Thomas Mann. The two great artists have not met for 30 years. Also to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AM on September 9, 2018