Weird and cunning in Camden

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20010309
Author:PATRICK MARMION

SPRINT FESTIVAL H Camden People's Theatre

FOR the fourth year running, the Sprint Festival of physical, visual and unusual theatre jogs through the Camden People's Theatre with a relay of 11 short shows. The venue is developing an increasingly consistent reputation for attracting top-of-the-range weirdness and this is certainly true of at least two of this year's festival performances - The Necklace and Maybellene, an adaptation of the Guy De Maupassant short story about a humble clerk at the Ministry of Education in fin de sicle Paris.

He falls in love with Mathilde, a beautiful waltzing ...

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