MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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Elegy
Donmar Warehouse
London WC2
4/5
BARBARA Flynn’s Carrie is faced with an awful choice. She can save her wife Lorna (Zoe Wanamaker) from an awful death at the hands of a degenerative brain condition or she can watch her die horribly. But the price of the cure is Lorna’s memory.
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