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THE LOWER DEPTHS ; Theatre ++ Finborough Theatre LONDON

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20070528
Author:PAUL TAYLOR

Thanks to Nicky Bunch's excellent, atmospheric design, the tiny Finborough Theatre doubles superbly as the dark, dingy provincial doss-house where the down-and-outs who've fallen through the cracks in Russian society congregate in Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths. For this stirring production, Phil Willmott directs a version that draws on the original 1902 text, the revisions the author made a year later, and the short story "Creatures That Once Were Men".

The result, played with persuasive grittiness and glinting gallows humour by the large, characterful cast, is a work animated by a deep ...

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