Montague Basement, June 11 5/10 Our own period of relative lock-down was but a little crack in time compared with poor Hermione’s. She had 16 years to endlessly press replay in her mind; to fret and ponder how she might have swayed her once-loving husband, Leontes, that she’d not fashioned…
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LIVE STREAM THEATRE Griffin Theatre Company, April 21 In terms of relevance deprivation right now you can’t sink much lower than a theatre critic. It’s like the National Party without coal: absolutely no raison d’etre (which is French, Barnaby, for a shrivelled grape.) So imagine the sheer ecstasy when Griffin…
Kings Cross Theatre, March 12 6.5/10 It’s probably unsurprising that we don’t do morality plays any more, given we don’t really do morality – although US playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins would presumably argue that’s just when we need a moral prod the most. Certainly the timing of this Cross Pollinate production…