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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20011016
Author:Marmion, Patrick

Byline: PATRICK MARMION

GHOSTDANCING * Lyric Studio, Hammersmith

THIS is a steamy potboiler in which a loveless marriage is blown apart by a torrid affair. Scholars of French literature will recognise Deepak Verma's drama as a Punjabi adaptation of Emile Zola's novel ThErEse Raquin. And for anyone who thought Zola was just another overpaid Chelsea footballer, they will be struck by some classy finishing in the new production from the British-Asian theatre company Tamasha.

Their show is a tragic melodrama with the guiltily furtive atmosphere of the 1946 film, The ...

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