STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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GORDON PARSONS witnesses a production committed to great fun but signifying nothing
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[Marc Brenner]
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MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
Macbeth
The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
THERE has long been an ongoing question at the RSC as to how to present Shakespeare to modern and, it is hoped, more youthful audiences.
There is a moment in Wils Wilson’s new production of Macbeth clearly indicating how we are encouraged to respond to this version of Shakespeare’s most profound treatment of the corrupting futility of ruthless ambition.
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