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The Lives of Others review – Keira Knightley brings star power to Robert Icke’s Stasi drama

The Lives of Others review – Keira Knightley brings star power to Robert Icke’s Stasi drama
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Adelphi theatre, LondonTheatre wunderkind’s adaptation of the Oscar-winning film has plenty of suspenseful stagecraft but struggles to match its subtletyAnother new show, another old story. This film-to-stage adaptation is from the 2006 German-language romantic thriller about Stasi surveillance and suppression of art in the former GDR. The accompanying, now almost obligatory, high-prestige screen actor is Keira Knightley, presumably whipping up…

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