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The Good Person of Szechwan, Pushkin Drama Theatre, Barbican review - slick Russian Brecht by David Nice

Musically strong, if persistent, this production has a star protagonist"In our country the capable man needs luck," belts out Shen Te, the Good Person of Szechwan in the most powerful song of Brecht's epic "parable play" of 1941. "Only if he has powerful backers can he prove his capacity". Never was that more true than in Russia today; note that the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre has been resident at the Barbican for f…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:32PM on February 10, 2019

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