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Company in Much Ado (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare’s Globe (2022)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:5 May 2022
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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Italian style and comedy in Much Ado "I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. " Beatrice Lucy Phelps as Beatrice…

Adrian Schiller as Shylock (Photo Tristram Kenton)

REVIEW: The Merchant of Venice, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, The Globe (2022)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:10 March 2022
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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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…

Georgia Landers as Isabella (Photo: Helen Murray)

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

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:9 December 2021
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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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.