"The fantastical should come so close to the real that you must almost believe it", declared Dostoyevsky on Pushkin's masterly ghost story The Queen of Spades. Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota and his superb French ensemble have brought off the feat twice now at the Barbican: last year with the pachydermal transformations of Ionesco's masterpiece Rhinocéros, and now throught the intrusion of Pirandello's nightmare family into …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:55AM on February 5, 2015