Theatre review: Ben Duke delivers a profoundly moving performance in Paradise Lost
In Paradise Lost, Ben Duke takes Milton’s epic tale and gives it an ingenious modern-day makeover. Picture: Zoe Manders
★★★★☆
When, at the start of this one-man version of Paradise Lost, the performer Ben Duke asks who has read John Milton’s magnum opus, a few hands shoot straight up, while I am still frantically racking my brain for remnants of the poem from my Leaving Cert English studies. At the end, I am compelled to seek Milton’s epic work out again, a testament to the power of this funny, captivating and profoundly moving performance, presented by Dance Cork Firkin Crane and Cork Midsummer Festival.
