Liverpool EverymanFlaubert's dry comic observations are replaced with full-on slapstick in a show that inserts dinosaur costumes and some awkward metatheatrical banter Julian Barnes described Flaubert's 19th-century classic as "the first great shopping and fucking novel". Both activities get its heroine, the beautiful, discontented Emma Bovary, into trouble. Married to a dull doctor, and mouldering away in the countr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AM on February 11, 2016