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
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
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
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
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