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Rebecca
Alhambra Theatre
Bradford/Touring
4/5
WITH one of the most famous opening lines in literature and an Oscar-winning film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock, it’s not for the faint-hearted to turn for artistic inspiration to Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 Gothic thriller Rebecca.
But where others have given the novel a literal interpretation, the Kneehigh company has brought to it its usual mix of irreverence.
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