Brave Effort Finds the Devil Is in the Details ; Musical Theatre: The Soldier's Tale, Old Vic

Evening Standard - London › January 31, 2006

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IF ART were measured by expenditure of spirit, this Motion Group collaboration at the Old Vic would win every prize going.

Iraqi and British actors have pooled skills to make an Anglo- Arabic, parallel text version of Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale, the story of a poor fool beguiled into selling his soul to the Devil. You can see the journey these performers have travelled, in the case of the director Andrew Steggall to Baghdad itself, to put their work on stage. Their effort sings out, and no doubt for each individual the rewards have been considerable.

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Brave Effort Finds the Devil Is in the Details ; Musical Theatre: The Soldier's Tale, Old Vic

For the audience watching, however well disposed - and I suspect we all were - th...

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