Read more about the article REVIEW: Red Riding Hood, Theatre Royal Stratford East (2021)
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REVIEW: Red Riding Hood, Theatre Royal Stratford East (2021)

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…

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Measure for Measure, Sam Wanamaker, Shakespeare’s Globe  (2021)
Georgia Landers as Isabella (Photo: Helen Murray)

REVIEW: Measure for Measure, Sam Wanamaker, Shakespeare’s Globe (2021)

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.   

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REVIEW: The Comedy of Errors, RSC at the Barbican (2021)

Boisterous Farce or Erroneous Comedy? "I to the world am like a drop of water that in the ocean seeks another drop, who, falling there to find his fellow forth,…

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