Red Riding Hood in Stratford East is charming! "Grannies and Mums don't get on.”Red Riding Hood Red Riding Hood Rehearsals Theatre Royal Stratford East ©The Other Richard There are around…
Measure for Measure is one of Shakespeare's problem plays. It defies categorisation, it is neither a comedy nor a tragedy nor a history. It is beloved of lawyers because it is about the rule of law but more of that later. Problems are a challenge to director Blanche McIntyre so she has set this play in 1975 in a degenerate society where government has lost control and lawlessness prevails.
Paul Taylor writes about playwright Robert Holman who died this week “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small”. It is hard to imagine a dramatist with a slighter…