Review: The Soldier's Tale: Making a song and dance of trench warfare

From: The Scotsman | Date: November 20, 2007| Author: Joyce McMillan | Copyright information

THEATRE, THE SOLDIER'S TALE, TRON, GLASGOW ***

IN 1918, when Igor Stravinsky completed The Soldier's Tale, the impact of the First World War in Europe was so fresh, and so horrific, that it drove cutting-edge artists into whole new areas of formal experiment. Hence the complex structure of The Soldier's Tale, a modern folk-version of the Faust myth in which a simple soldier is tricked by the Devil into selling his soul - represented by his much-loved old violin - in return for a kind o...

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