By Lyn Gardner for The Guardian, 25 October 2015 Recent revivals of this play have often stressed the darker aspects of Shakespeare’s comedy of identical twins and mistaken identity. That was probably never going to happen with this pint-sized version of the play adapted by the NT’s deputy artistic director, Ben Power and intended for eight to 12-year-olds. It’s not quite sun, sea […]
By Nick Clark for the Independent, 9 July 2015 Mark Rylance, the actor, has criticised subsidised theatre companies including the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company for charging “way too much” for tickets. While the National has a long track record of offering discounted seats, the Wolf Hall star said it had a duty to cut prices further in return […]
By Simon Farquhar for The Independent, 8 June 2015 The fatherly, urbane Richard Johnson was well-equipped for a career as one of the leading lights of the RSC, of which he was a founder member. With a voice that could command as easily as it could charm, lounge-lizard good looks and a sturdy physicality, his 70-year career also included spells as a […]
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