Marriage of Art Forms Impresses and Alienates

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Few shows come to the Edinburgh International Festival with the pedigree of Chilean company Teatrocinema's Sin Sangre (Without Blood). Director Juan Carlos Zagal honed his dramatic powers with legendary Latin American theatre company La Troppa. The story itself comes from the pen of acclaimed Italian author Alessandro Baricco, whose monologue Novecento was staged by the great Quebecois director Francois Girard at the EIF back in 2001.

However, Zagal's approach to Baricco is very different from Girard's. Ironically - given the latter's impact in the world of film - it is the Chilean whose staging of Baricco is by far the most cinematic.

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Marriage of Art Forms Impresses and Alienates

As the name of Zagal's company suggests, what we have in Sin Sangre is a thorough...

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