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Cast in The Crucible (Photo Johan Persson)

Review: The Crucible, Old Vic (2014)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:10 September 2014
Post category:Play Review West End
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The South African born director Yael Farber, after an award winning Mies Julie brings her dark touch to Arthur Miller's iconic play about prejudice, politics and hysteria The Crucible. Set in the 17th century in Salem, the witch trials were a matter of record, probably driven by greed for land confiscated from witches but as Miller was writing he was thinking about the trials in twentieth century America, the witch hunt for Communists that were instigated by Senator McCarthy.

Ben Whishaw as Hamlet and Imogen Stubbs as Gertrude (Photo: Alistair Muir)

REVIEW: Hamlet, Old Vic (2004)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:29 April 2004
Post category:Play Review West End
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This is Sir Trevor Nunn's first Hamlet in thirty years and the publicity machine leapt into action to emphasis the youth of his cast, actors who are, or have just been students, playing Hamlet and his contemporaries, also students. It is of course a tremendous risk to take with Shakespeare's greatest tragedy to entrust the huge and demanding role of the Prince of Denmark to Ben Whishaw who is only 23 and barely out of RADA.