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.
It was the book that couldn't be filmed, and after it was filmed, it was the film that couldn't be staged and now it is showing at Wyndham's Theatre in the West End with exemplary staging.