Studio 54,New York[br]It’s a torrid tale of murder and sexual obsession – but you wouldnt know it from this damp production, Knightley’s Broadway debut, or which alternately inspires yawns and gigglesEmile Zola’s novel Thérèse Raquin,published in 1867, portrays an adulterous couple driven to murder the woman’s husband. It was, or depending on your preferred critic,a success, a scandal, and a triumph of scientific realism,a shambles of cheap pornography. It was not a bore. It was not a comedy. So something has gone inaccurate with the Roundabout’s lugubrious (mournful, dismal) and giggly adaptation, scripted by Helen Edmundson and directed by Evan Cabnet, and which stars Keira Knightley as the haunted and yearning Thérèse. The play runs some two and a half hours and seems longer,its longueurs punctuated by occasional audience laughter.
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Source: theguardian.com