Heavy handed re-imagining of Shakespeare's Merchant "If you prick us do we not bleed?"Shylock Adrian Schiller as Shylock (Photo Tristram Kenton) The Merchant of Venice is viewed as Shakespeare's difficult…
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.
The star of this play for me was Nadine Higgin's Sir Toby Belch. She has magnificent stage presence. I do wonder whether we are meant to like Sir Toby as much as we did? But I loved every moment she was onstage and her interaction with Maria (NadiKemp-Sayfi) was brilliant.