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Newspaper Article
Dreary direction makes for a slow Progress
2012
Overview
The history of ENO's production of Vaughan Williams's The Pilgrim's Progress reflects a multiple triumph. This is the first full professional British staging since its premiere was overseen by the 79-year-old composer at the Festival of Britain in 1951 - and 79 is the age of this production's Japanese director, Yoshi Oida. Bunyan's morality tale reflects a triumph of a higher order, since he wrote it while in prison for \"unlicensed preaching\". Oida wants us to see his drama as taking place within a prison, \"but not a very solid one\"; he follows Bunyan's cue that it's all a dream. And if his aesthetic has its roots in Noh, that fits neatly with what the composer himself described as \"more a ceremony than a drama\"...
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Independent Digital News & Media
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