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Beware of Pity review " Simon McBurney astonishes with vision of a world on edge by Michael Billington

Barbican, London With dazzling virtuosity, this Complicite/Schaubühne staging of Stefan Zweig's novel brilliantly evokes a doomed romance and the imminent horror of warBalzac, about whom Stefan Zweig wrote an excellent book, once claimed that "pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker". I wonder if that phrase echoed in Zweig's mind since it permeates his 1939 novel Beware of Pity, which Simon McBurney has turned int…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:48am on February 10, 2017 ☆ ⚑

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