Hints and tips:
...If you go down to the woods today, you’d better be wearing wellies....
...The four lovers are sweet, sexy and self-absorbed as they give rein in the woods to their buried lust: Maya Wasowicz’s demure Helen is soon straddling Demetrius and urging him to whip her, while William...
...Among the latest is a sumptuous, gilded mummy mask inscribed in Greek for a Roman citizen, Titus Flavius Demetrius....
...The contrast between Athens and the woods disappears, so the characters lose their moorings and with that, the resonance of their experience....
...On its cover was a beautifully fretted pear-shaped fiddle made of mulberry wood and decorated with fine filigree inlay....
...All four lovers are sweet, silly and petulant, and deeply disturbed when, in the wood, they confront the confusion of desire. Here the wood is both a real forest and a thicket of subconscious longings....
...All four lovers are in fine voice, with Miriam Gordon-Stewart’s crystal- clear Helena and Nmon Ford’s warmly confident Demetrius giving especial pleasure....
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