Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, ParisThe prose, poems, songs and reworkings of existing texts that make up Michael Ondaatje's 1970 meditation on the life of one of the United States's best-known outlaws are as clear and spare as the bones he pictures in Billy's coffin, "vertebrae like a row of pearl buttons off a rich coat". Like bones, his words are surrounded by invisiblenesses of what once was or might have been.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on April 20, 2013