Paradise review " Kae Tempest's unruly take on Sophocles
Olivier theatre, LondonLesley Sharp stars in a tragedy that interrogates notions of military machismo and the performance of masculinity Kae Tempest's reworked Sophoclean tragedy is the story of Philoctetes, a once mighty soldier abandoned by his army to live a scraping existence alone in a cave. Bursting with speeches and songs, poetry and humour, it is a sprawling, unruly creation. Tempest drags the story forward b…