The Press (York)

March 22, 2014

THREE Shakespeare plays are being given the short, sharp treatment in three nights of double bills this week, each production presented by a group of 14 to16-year-old York Theatre Royal Youth Theatre members.

This adds up to condensed Shakespeare in the compact Studio space: a contrasting audience experience to the epic scale of the Royal Shakespeare Company or Shakespeare’s Globe.

Thursday’s brace of hour-long adaptations combined he Tempest and Macbeth; Friday offered Julius Caesar and The Tempest; tonight’s pair will be Macbeth and Julius Caesar, a night of villainous deeds and power struggles in both plays and supernatural events in the Scottish play to match those of The Tempest. […continued]

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