Death and vengeance in Italy
Robert Tanitch reviews The Revenger’s Tragedy at Barbican Theatre, London EC2 The violence in Thomas Middleton’s revenge play, a once highly popular genre, is played out in all its vicious and grotesq ...
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Who sins most? Is it the tempter? Or is it the tempted?
Robert Tanitch reviews RSC’s Measure for Measure at Barbican Theatre, London EC2 Gregory Doran sets his production, in fin de siècle Vienna – the decadent Vienna of Freud, Schnitzler, Klimt and ...
All the male roles are played by women and all the female roles are played by men
Robert Tanitch reviews RSC’s The Taming of the Shrew at Barbican Theatre , London EC2 What is your attitude toward a man who describes his wife as his goods, chattels, house, household stuff, filed, b ...
We that are true lovers run into strange capers. You can say that again
Robert Tanitch reviews RSC’s As You Like It at Barbican Theatre, London EC2 The RSC regularly bring their productions to the Barbican from October to January which is great but they do not necessarily ...