Old Vic, London; Theatre Royal, Newcastle; Royal Court, LondonJohn Webster was for Bernard Shaw the "Tussaud laureate": a playwright of waxy gore. Today he can look like the Damien Hirst dramatist. Hirst's diamond-studded skull could be an emblem for The Duchess of Malfi, in which glitter covers corruption and whose most memorably shining lines " "Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young" " greet a garrotting…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM on March 31, 2012