Theatre: Shakespeare 1. Romeo and Juliet (RSC). 2. King Lear (RSC). 3. As You Like It (West Yorkshire Playhouse). 4. Measure for Measure (Almeida). 5. The Winter’s Tale (RSC/Roundhouse). 6. Henry IV part 2 (Globe). 7. Macbeth (Globe). 8. Antony and Cleopatra (RSC). 9. Antony and Cleopatra (Liverpool Playhouse). 10. Hamlet (The Crucible, Sheffield). 11.…
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The production looked like a very traditional proscenium arch comedy with its elaborate set. The plot contained all the elements of a farce, the confusion, character types and even some entering and exiting through different doors in the set. There was a play on the fact that it was a modern-day production of a seventeenth-century text. Not so subtle devices were …
Read more The Misanthrope (The Comedy Theatre, 16th January 2010)