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L'amante anglaise by Margaret Duras (La Mama Theatre and Fortyfivedownstairs) ★★★★

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ABR Arts 13 February 2017

L'amante anglaise by Margaret Duras (La Mama Theatre and Fortyfivedownstairs) ★★★★

by
ABR Arts 13 February 2017

Little wonder that fortyfivedownstairs is encoring Marguerite Duras’s brilliantly dialectical play L’amante anglaise, first presented in this production at La Mama Theatre in 2014, directed by Laurence Strangio. Duras wrote it first as a novella fifty years ago; the stage adaptation followed in 1968. Jillian Murray and Robert Meldrum each play two roles, Murray in her award-winning role as Claire Lanne, the self-confessed murderer (the play is based on historical events). Both actors are utterly assured in this absorbing, perversely humorous, and impressively still production. The gradual revelations throughout the two ‘interviews’ produce frisson after frisson.