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Discus the ways in which two performers used there skills in one production that you have seen: Tristane and Yseult. If history is written by the winners, love
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Discus the ways in which two performers used there skills in one production that you have seen: Tristane and Yseult. If history is written by the winners, love stories are generally told by losers. Love, after all, never ends well. The story of Tristan and Yseult is told here by White Hands, the leader of the chorus of Love Spotters, the unloved, who bumble about the theatre dressed in anoraks and balaclavas. Losers. But most of the time, the lovers aren't much better off. 'I was born in sorrow, for pity's sake,' Tristan tells anyone who will listen. As the champion of Cornwall's King Mark, he is sent to Ireland to bring back the vanquished Morholt's sister Yseult to be Mark's queen. You know the rest, even if you don't. On the 8th of November we went to see a Kneehigh Theatre production called Tristan and Yseult, at...
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