Repressed sexuality dampens every page of Federico Garcia Lorca’s 1936 play, as five sisters rage, sob and stew in their house in rural Spain. Here, her house feels like something between a prison and an operating theatre, with Merle Hensel’s bold set design turning the stage into a three-storey doll’s house in sickly shades of surgical-scrub green. Playwright Alice Birch’s …
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Indian Grandmaster P Iniyan finished third in the Lorca Open 2021 chess tournament here. The 19-year-old Iniyan scored seven points from nine rounds, winning seven games and losing two including in the final round to Karen H Grigoryan. Venkataraman also finished with seven points but took the fourth place on the basis of an inferior tie-break score. Brazilian GM Alexandr …
India's teenage Grandmaster P. Iniyan finished third in the Lorca Open 2021 chess tournament in Lorca, Spain. The 19-year old Iniyan scored seven points from nine rounds, winning seven games and losing two including in the final round to Karen H Grigoryan. Venkataraman also finished with seven points but took the fourth place on the basis of an inferior tie-break …
