Royal Exchange, ManchesterThis convincing modern-day staging strips away the 19th-century trappings to reveal a story as relevant as ever'Love is a dark and shifty creature. We cannot all live in a fairytale," warns Lady Russell (Geraldine Alexander) in this bold, enoyable and often exhilarating updating of Jane Austen's final novel. The heroine Anne (Lara Rossi), who eight years previously was persuaded to reject th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM on June 2, 2017