It’s a pity that no amount of magic can make that draughty old barn of a theatre, the Shaftesbury, into a cosy space ideal for a show of now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t. Here, director and choreographer Neil Dorward smothers his line-up of seven male illusionists in naff, glitzy, vulgar, Vegas-style trappings. ...read
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The luminous Judi Dench gives a Shakespearean masterclass in Kenneth Branagh's winter wonder
Sir Kenneth is back with his own company for a one-year season in the beautifully restored Garrick Theatre. His first production, superbly co-directed by him and Rob Ashford, is Shakespeare’s late romance, The Winter’s Tale, about redemption and regeneration and the miracle that is a second chance. And it reunites him – thrillingly – with Dench. ...read
Just how I like it: an admirably clear account of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedy
On each desk is a bonsai tree, indicative of the way nature is stifled and suppressed in this computerised, windowless world of screens and shredders in Polly Findlay’s revolutionary revival. The staff – in striped, colour-coded uniforms and resembling worker bees – are automatons. Findlay has thought through this relocation carefully and cleverly. ...read
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