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SIMON PARSONS sees a brilliant musical reworking of Greek myth at the National Theatre which chimes with the Trump era
Oratory of the oppressed: Hadestown [Helen Maybanks]

Hadestown
National Theatre, London

 

TWELVE years in the shaping, Anais Mitchell’s musical, drawing on jazz, blues, soul and folk, proves remarkably prescient and her collaboration with director Rachel Chavkin has produced a stunning piece of theatre.

 

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