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Roll up, roll up, for politics, death and a laugh-a-minute ; The Gorky revival rumbles on, with a century-old revolutionary classic ++ Theatre 2 ++ Philistines ++ NT Lyttelton LONDON

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20070617
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Everyone is driving each other up the wall in Philistines. Maxim Gorky's domestic comedy-going-on-Russian revolutionary drama was first staged by Stanislavsky in 1902 amid great tension - with cavalry troops lined up outside the atre. Howard Davies's NT production now reveals it to be a satirically entertaining, socially fascinating and foreboding gem. Gorky is certainly proving a hit after the success of Enemies at the Almeida last year.

The action unfolds in one long, austere front room in a gloomy town house, its windows streaming with rain. This is the fractious family home of a petit ...

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Roll up, roll up, for politics, death and a laugh-a-minute ; The Gorky revival rumbles on, with a century-old revolutionary classic ++ Theatre 2 ++ Philistines ++ NT Lyttelton LONDON

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