Roslyn Packer Theatre, November 28 It’s all there in Lear: ultimate acts of cruelty and kindness; pinnacles of despair and triumphalism; arrogantly wielded power and a descent into beggarly madness. Masterly constructed, it is not a play of plot and sub-plots, but of tightly interwoven narratives, so that although…
Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive
Ensemble Theatre, October 15 On the page David Hare’s My Zinc Bed is often a cold as the cocktails that litter its story. The three characters jostle and banter, love and betray, but the stakes seem small, with Hare’s motives split between a cursory investigation of the nature of addiction,…
New Theatre, September 15 Depicting genius is hard. Credibly depicting Shakespeare, our greatest writer and finest observer of humanity, is even tougher, as Tom Stoppard proved with his lame attempt in Shakespeare in Love. The idea of making Will a TV talk show guest (alongside Francis Bacon), quizzing him about…