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The Duchess (of Malfi)
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“YOUR office is full of corpses,” observes a character stepping into the blood-drenched final scene of Zinnie Harris’s adaptation of John Webster’s Jacobean shocker.
All resemblance to Conservative Party HQ is purely intentional and one of the many ways in which this violent, plain-speaking play has been polished up to reflect present-day Britain.
The office is run by an amoral sexist patriarch who abuses anyone, including his own family, to maintain his grip on wealth and power.
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