Shakespeare’s ‘lost child’ makes rare appearance in Londo

By Barbara Lewis for Reuters, 18 June 2015

As every theater-lover knows, “Othello”, “Hamlet” and “Romeo and Juliet” all end with bodies littering the stage, so it’s a rare thrill for audiences to watch a work by Shakespeare without knowing exactly what will happen next.

The suspense is delivered by one of London’s off-West End pub theaters, which until June 27 is staging a play that more than “The Tempest” can claim to be William Shakespeare’s last work, but is performed less than once a decade.

“The Two Noble Kinsmen”, written in collaboration with John Fletcher, was long dismissed as unworthy of being considered an official part of the canon.

With the first London production since 2000, The White Bear Theatre, a tiny stage behind a South London pub, which has built an award-winning reputation on its willingness to take risks on new writing and lost classics, makes a compelling case for including it in the complete works.

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