I have seen more bad productions of The Tempest than good ones. Ironically, the best productions were in Russian (directed by Declan Donnellan), in Japanese (directed by Yukio Ninagawa) and on film (i ...
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Pedro Calderon de La Barca is one of the great writers of Spain’s Golden Age and Life is a Dream, written in 1635, is generally considered to be his masterpiece. It is rarely performed in the UK. I ha ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews The Winter’s Tale on line Declan Donnellan’s production for Cheek by Jowl, which was seen at the Barbican Theatre in 2017, immediately establishes that Leontes and Polixenes, fr ...
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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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