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Homeric levels of misery: Paradise, at the Olivier Theatre, reviewed

Plus: watching a lockdown play like the one currently at Park Theatre feels like tunnelling back into the prison from which you’ve just been released

The only highlight: Gloria Obianyo as Neoptolemus, in Kae Tempest’s adaptation of Philoctetes [Helen Murray]
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    Olivier Theatre, until 11 September

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    Park Theatre

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