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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the critic Muriel Zagha to discuss a new play by Florian Zeller, \\u2018the most successful representative of contemporary French theatre\\u2019; Kathryn Hughes, the author of \\u2018Victorians Undone: Tales of the flesh in the age of decorum\\u2019, explores the cultural significance of passing out, from \\u2018Troilus and Criseyde\\u2019 to \\u2018Fifty Shades of Grey\\u2019, via Shakespeare and Bram Stoker; plus, a poem by Ange Mlinko, \\u2018Storm Windows\\u2019 

\\u2018The Forest\\u2019 by Florian Zeller, translated by Christopher Hampton, Hampstead Theatre, until March 12

\\u2018Swoon: A poetics of passing out\\u2019 by Naomi Booth

Produced by Sophia Franklin

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