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Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead
Barbican Theatre, London
THE highly anticipated new production by renowned theatre group Complicite had a rather unfortunate false start when its press night was cancelled at the eleventh hour after lead actor Kathryn Hunter came down with a sudden illness.
Since then, Amanda Hadingue has dauntlessly stepped into what proves to be quite the Herculean role for most of the short two-week run at the Barbican... but not tonight.
The diminutive grey-haired Hunter ambles out, in character, rasping and coughing into a central mic: “Just a touch of Covid!” she jests, although the irony isn’t lost.
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