★★★★☆A woman in a red coat and black dress walks around the hall, a lost look on her face. She stands still and begins: she babbles, whispers, clicks and tics, speaks through a megaphone, silently screams. “Am I really as pretty as I look in that mirror?” she asks, in German. Is it me speaking?” Else’s fractured story, drawn from Arthur Schnitzler’s novella Fräulein Else, is the focus of Beat Furrer’s 2005 FAMA, here given its UK premiere by the London Sinfonietta. The idea stems from Ovid’s House of Fama (or…

Source: The Times November 14, 2016 17:01 UTC