The director who set Verdi's Rigoletto in mafia Manhattan hits out at West End habit on the eve of his own revival of a neglected Edwardian playJonathan Miller, the elder statesman of British theatre who will stage his first play for six years this month, has called for an end to the West End habit of updating classic works by setting them in a different era."Very often this kind of updating is just wrong," he said. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:23AM on February 2, 2013