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Measure for Measure – Review
| July 5, 2019
We might think that the sex-for-favours and #MeToo scandal is a modern phenomenon. But Shakespeare had exposed the depraved trade-off more than 400 years ago in Measure for
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othellomacbeth – Review
| October 18, 2018
Director Jude Christian’s othellomacbeth, two-for-one offer on Shakespearean tragedies at the Lyric Hammersmith, sounds like a bad idea. Crammed into two and half hours, there’s too much material
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Dido, Queen of Carthage – Review
| September 21, 2017
Christopher Marlowe’s debut play, Dido Queen of Carthage is a story of all consuming love, mystical intrigue, gods and humans, and brutal violence. Not bad for a first
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| June 26, 2017
The Rome Season at The Royal Shakespeare Company climaxes this September with Dido, Queen of Carthage, Marlowe’s dark tale of sacrifice and passion. Directed by Kimberley Sykes this
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Doctor Faustus Review
| February 12, 2016
I can quite understand the reluctance of Elizabethan audiences to feel comfortable sitting in a theatre while the star of the show conjures up the Devil. In a
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