The new production of Robin / Red / Breast has one positive – it’s sent Martin Jameson back to find the original:

The original easily deserves its ‘classic’ label. In creating a ‘striking and subversive adaptation for our times’, director Sarah Frankcom, Maxine Peake and writer Daisy Johnson have stripped the original of its narrative drive, eschewing all the tropes of folk horror that are not only at the heart of its meaning but are important cultural progenitors for dozens of films and series

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