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West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
3/5
Charlotte Bronte would struggle to find any comparisons in the initial sections of this theatrical re-imagining of her gothic masterpiece Villette.
Whereas in the novel Lucy Snowe is an orphaned governess who travels to an imaginary French-speaking town, playwright Linda Marshall-Griffiths has transformed her into a virologist based at an archeological dig.
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