Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Parisian decadence

Marguerite (Haymarket), The Good Soul of Szechuan (Young Vic), Under Milk Wood (Tricycle)

issue 31 May 2008

This ought to be a hit. The Les Mis team are back in the West End with another French classic. The Lady of the Camellias, by Alexandre Dumas fils, is the play that inspired Verdi’s La Traviata and the Garbo film Camille.

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