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Outstanding adaptation brings Lope de Vega's parable of social injustice bang up to date
The Village [Johan Persson]

The Village
Theatre Royal Stratford East

 

IN FUENTEOVEJUNA, Lope de Vegas’s classic Spanish drama of 1619, a community stands together against corruption, tyranny and abuse and April De Angelis’s dynamic blank-verse adaptation transposes the action to modern-day India.

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