There’s been a lot about the celebrity and Shakespearean performance recently and I think that the Old Vic production of Richard III is a really good example of a performance that centres around one star performer. This is to be expected because Richard III centres around one character, but there is no doubt this production has Kevin…
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)
Julie Raby 