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The Tower of Evil. (CSC Theater, New york City)

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From: The Nation
Date: 19900611
Author:Disch, Thomas M.

Alexandre Dumas pere's The Tower of Evil at the CSC Theatre on East 13th Street also requires an audience tolerant of artifice and able to relish plot for plot's sake. The pleasures Dumas yields to those who yield to him are not ratiocinative but rather such as one associates with horror movies and the more lurid sort of opera. Indeed, La Tour de Nesie, to give it its French title, was the exact contemporary of Hugo's Le Roi's amuse of 1832, which served Verdi as the basis for Rigoletto. The plot of La Tour de Nesle is even more lurid, and indifferent to historical possibility, ...

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