Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, directed by Gregory Doran, RSC, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Thursday 18 October and Wednesday 14 November 2018. Reviewed by Peter Malin All quotations from the play are from the 1987 New Penguin edition, ed. by R. A. Foakes Academic theatre reviewing should sometimes, I think, consist of more […]
As the baby boom generation moves into old age, ageing audiences, and ageing actors, are increasingly drawn to King Lear which is now staged more frequently than Hamlet. This year alone we’ve already seen Timothy West’s Lear in Bristol, Don Warrington’s in Manchester and Michael Pennington’s in Northampton and later this year Glenda Jackson will play it […]
