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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20040516
Author:by John Gross

Cruel and Tender

Whistling Psyche

Rattle of a Simple Man

Beautiful and Damned

Martin Crimp has poured some fine old wine into an interesting new bottle. Cruel and Tender, at the Young Vic, is his modern re-working of The Woman of Trachis, by Sophocles. Heracles is now an unnamed general - five-star, no doubt. His wife Deianeira has become smart, overwrought Amelia, awaiting his return from Africa where he has been subduing terrorists. Jealous of her husband's devotion to a woman captive he has despatched home, she sends him not the poisoned shirt of Nessus but a poisoned pillow. After her ...

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