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...Dazzling when it first opened in 2019, it now returns to the West End (before travelling to Glasgow and New York) in blistering form, led by a phenomenal performance from James McAvoy....
...Christopher Silas Neal’s colourful illustrations leap off the page. So do those of Lydia Corry in her Marvellous Magicians (Thames & Hudson £14.99)....
...So too does The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells: his paint manufacturer protagonist can only be made morally acceptable by having all his hard-won wealth removed. Yawn....
...Halfway through, we break for a delicious picnic at Snowshill and, in the afternoon, Charlotte points out the ruined cottage where Ben Kingsley filmed Silas Marner....
...Review by James Lovegrove...
...But Melissa Toogood, Daniel Madoff, Silas Reiner and Robert Swinston made the shifts in tempo, direction and breadth sharp and extreme....
...James Lovegrove …………………………………………………………….....
...He is also taken under the wing of Silas, a pallid haunter of the tombs who seems to belong to the night-flying, blood-sucking fraternity, although the v-word is never mentioned explicitly....
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