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From: Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
Date: 20061202
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Byline: SOPHIE GORMAN

'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own ways."

With this oft-quoted line so begins Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy's famous story about what is without doubt a most unhappy family. Despite its unavoidably bleak undercurrent, Anna Karen-ina in theatrical form makes for a surprisingly suitable Christmas offering, with its snow-capped setting of the Russian Steppes and its moving tale of devotion, destitution and deception.

And it will make a most welcome change-up from the recent annual production of A Christmas Carol ...

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