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By Clare Shine [Financial Times, 24 January 2006]

Is it a reflection on the unstable world around us that religious themes are becoming more prominent on stage? The past year alone has seen Howard Brenton's Paul in London, Jacques Delcuvellerie's Anathème on Old Testament violence in Avignon and now Claude Régy's minimalist adaptation of the Psalms, 10 years after his Words of the Prophet based on Ecclesiastes.