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Orpheus Descending, Royal Exchange, Manchester by Philip Radcliffe

Oh, how it's raining. Streaming down the windows of the dry goods store, Torrance Mercantile, in the Deep South, where Lady Torrance is marooned in a stiflingly small town and a loveless marriage with an awful secret. Depressing. "We're under a lifelong sentence to solitary confinement in our own lonely skins," says 30-year-old drifter Val Xavier in his snakeskin jacket, holding onto his only companion in his wanderi…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:05PM on October 30, 2012

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