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Flaubert massacred by coarse trivialising; THEATRE.

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20031106
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Byline: NICHOLAS DE JONGH

Madame Bovary - Breakfast With Emma

Lyric, Hammersmith

FAY Weldon's ridiculous adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary serves as a warning for upstart writers who mess around with great novels while transferring them from page to stage. To read Flaubert's great account of female desire and existential panic and then to expose yourself to Miss Weldon's Breakfast with Emma, as she subtitles her coarse, trivialising version, is like eating supper at McDonald's after a cordon bleu lunch.

And Polly Teale, normally a remarkable director ...

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