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Byline: Adam Green
Experimental theater is alive and well in London. After last season's smashing Southern Gothic twist on Goethe's Faust, set in an abandoned factory, the ingenious theater company Punchdrunk takes on Poe with The Masque of the Red Death, turning a former Victorian town hall into a castle battened down to keep out the plague. Along with a general air of foreboding, artistic director Felix Barrett promises mesmerism, mind-reading, and swing-dancing. "Everything is about the adventure audiences go on," he says. For nearly 25 years, Simon McBurney and his company ...