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Forbidden passion's high cost; It's Friday! Theatre.(Theater review)

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20061117
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Byline: PATRICK MARMION

Therese Raquin

(Lyttelton, National Theatre)

Verdict: Parisian adulterers locked in artful, depressing melodrama ***

WERE the 19th-century French novelist Emile Zola to stir from his grave and take himself down to the National Theatre, he'd be in for a big surprise.

Ambitious young director Marianne Elliot has turned his story of bourgeois adultery and murder into an Edgar Allen Poe-ish Gothic nightmare.

Zola may be best known for his acute social realism, dissecting the layers of French society.

But this is pure melodrama.

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