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Julian Nichols os Professor Charles Nichols. (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: Power of Sail, Menier Chocolate Factory (2024)

Free Speech or Cancel Culture "The paradox of tolerance.”Baxter Forrest, after Karl Popper Julian Nichols os Professor Charles Nichols. (Photo: Manuel Harlan) The title to Paul Grellong’s play Power of…

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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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