ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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Outstanding adaptation brings Lope de Vega's parable of social injustice bang up to date
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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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