Theatre reviews: Duet for One | The Burton Taylor Affair
IT’S A dangerous business, writing plays which are – or can be interpreted as being – about real historical figures. In a programme note to Birmingham Rep’s recent production of Duet For One, now on tour in Edinburgh, the playwright Tom Kempinski flatly denies that the story it tells, of a great female violinist struck down in mid-career by multiple sclerosis, has anything to do with the life of Jacqueline Du Pre, the legendary English cellist who died in 1987, 14 years after her career was ended by the disease.