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From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20021201
Author:MARK BROWN

PLEASURE AND PAIN Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow

WITH Mark Thomson poised to take the reins at Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre in the New Year, this piece, based upon the life and works of Guy de Maupassant, is a fine opportunity to remind ourselves of the young dramatist's abilities as both a director and a writer.

The life of Maupassant, the energetic heterosexual, scourge of French "moral decency" and prodigious "industrialist of literature", is an inherently dramatic one. His brief 43 years on this planet were characterised, as the play's title suggests, by a never-ending search for sexual ...

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