Walls come crashing down when lust is mistaken for love
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★★★½
Extricating your own presence from what you are trying to express – Shakespeare-style – is fiendishly difficult. Although it may not be critical to making exceptional art, it does help to make it timeless. Joanna Murray-Smith’s
Honour has had to survive only 26 years so far, but it hasn’t aged a week in that time.
George (Huw Higginson) mistakes lust for love with Claudia (Ayeesha Ash).
Credit:Prudence Upton
Of course, a middle-aged man obsessing over a woman half his age is a goose that keeps on giving to countless storytellers. Setting Murray-Smith’s play apart is that she attains the rarefied plane of watching over her characters dispassionately, rather than sitting in judgment. Not only did she not need a villain, such a figure would have been anathema, because she depicts marital betrayal �
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