Alexander Pushkin's cautionary tale of avarice and deceit gets colourful treatment in this enjoyable adaptation by Fusebox Productions. This Queen of Spades dispenses with the spare, subtle style of its source material and reinvents itself as a punchy three-hander that shines best in its moments of wry humour and vaudevillian pantomime. With the exception of [...]
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:58PM on October 19, 2011