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No Villain
Trafalgar Studios, London SW1
2/5
DESPITE winning the prestigious Avery Hopwood prize for No Villain as a 21-year-old, US playwright Arthur Miller never lived to to see his inaugural work on stage.
It’s taken a decade since his death for it to be finally produced and, on this evidence, that’s perhaps not surprising.
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