MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Dusting off a Shakespearan fairy tale
GORDON PARSONS applauds a production which turns a Jacobean obscurity into a dreamlike journey
DREAM-LIKE: Alfred Enoch as Pericles
[Johan Persson] 
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Pericles
The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
THIS fairy tale for adults, thought to have been only partially Shakespeare’s work, is relatively rarely produced today on the modern stage. It did not even appear in the First Folio, the Bard’s Bible. Yet it was apparently very popular in its own day.
Tamara Harvey’s new production for the RSC should serve to resurrect its popularity.
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