What a magnificient performance! The only way to make things better would have been to SEE it as well as hear it. A tour de force from Alan Cumming! There aren't enough superlatives to express how much I loved his performance. He brings to life every character and gives them a distinctive voice which lets us follow the story without getting lost. Granted, maybe someone who does not know the story at all would get lost, I'm not certain. There are almost no artifice, apart from superimposing his voice whenever characters speak together. A bare, but certainly not boring, interpretation of the classic text.