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Sat 05 May 2009An intimate portrait of power
As a picture of a disintegrating Russian family, and of a world in which security is more important than succour, Tom Murphy’s new play reflects, with uncanny prescience, the current mood of the country, writes SARA KEATING
TOM MURPHY’S new play, The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant, is a magisterial reflection of a way of life that is slowly dissolving. The life in question is a Russian small-town life, one on the brink of industrialisation, a world where important class distinctions are eroding in a country that is gradually moving towards its own apocalypse with the social revolutions of the early 1900s.
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