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Set in late 1950s England, Winston Graham's novel was immortalised by the Hitchcock movie, which, despite its changes to a number of features of the original, restored in Nico Muhly's opera, is the prism through which we inevitably see the action. Marnie is a deeply troubled young woman robbing from her employers and changing identity to stay one jump ahead of the law. She is eventually found out by Mark who, threatening to expose her crime, forces her into an initially loveless marriage but has the power to make her confront a past of which her damaged life has been the result.
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