Now, the Almeida is staging Washburn’s take on another ubiquitous American TV show, The Twilight Zone. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sam Swainsbury and John Marquez in rehearsals for The Twilight Zone. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex FeaturesThe Twilight Zone is, Washburn suggests, “part of the psychological structure of what it is to be American”. “As an American right now, I look at The Twilight Zone and I feel great sympathy with it,” she says. For all its futuristic visions, Washburn posits that The Twilight Zone captures something that goes right back to Athens.

Source: The Guardian November 27, 2017 06:56 UTC