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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20040924
Author:JOYCE McMILLAN

THE LADY AOI / LA MUSICA ****

CITIZENS' THEATRE, GLASGOW

SEXUAL obsession: sometimes I wonder whether the British really believe in it at all, but it's certainly the big theme, so far, of the Citizens' autumn season. On the main stage, there's Jeremy Raison's version of Emile Zola's Therese Raquin. And now, in the Circle Studio, there's this gripping double bill of short plays about the destructive force of erotic love, written in Japan and France in the 1950s, and staged as part of Kenny Miller's five-week A Little Bit Of Ruff season. The bill opens with Yukio Mishima's The Lady Aoi, in ...

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