Civil class war: Coriolanus, RSC
Coriolanus doesn’t often hit the modern stage: its plot, a hymn to the necessary evil of educated patrician privilege in order to provide for the politically fickle, unthinking plebeian multitude, doesn’t…
Here, too, are tears: Dido, Queen of Carthage, Marlowe, RSC
While there are many excellent reasons to read Virgil’s Aeneid from cover to cover, more than once, the fourth book of the great Roman epic (Dido’s abandonment by Aeneas and subsequent suicide)…
Midsummer Mischief Programme B – for Theatrecat
I reviewed Midsummer Mischief Programme B at the kind invitation of Libby Purves, for her website Theatrecat.com. I CAN HEAR YOU – E.V. Crowe Starkly funny, E.V. Crowe’s play shows us how…
Midsummer Mischief A at the RSC: new works by Timberlake Wertenbaker and Alice Birch
Libby Purves kindly invited me to review at the RSC for her website Theatrecat.com. There were two plays in Midsummer Mischief Programme A: THE ANT AND THE CICADA – Timberlake…