Anne-Marie Duff in fine form in The House of Shades at the Almeida

Sometimes an ambitious failure is preferable to a safe success, but that’s sadly not the case with The House of Shades.  Even the incredible Anne-Marie Duff – on fierce form – is unable to pull together the threads of a play that’s part state-of-the-nation polemic, part kitchen sink drama, part Greek tragedy and part surreal [...]