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Soul review " Roy Williams' Marvin Gaye drama doesn't get it on by Lyn Gardner

Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonThe singer's life and death are recast as a Greek tragedy in a play that curiously neglects his influential musicOn 1 April, 1984, one day before his 45th birthday, the great soul musician Marvin Gaye got into an argument with his father, who picked up a gun and shot his son through the heart. That shot rings out at the start of Roy Williams' domestic drama, which ignores the man's musi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:44AM on May 25, 2016

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