Reviewer's Rating Imperium: The Cicero Plays Mel Cooper 08/01/2018The RSC has done a remarkable job of turning Robert Harris’s Cicero Trilogy into a stage work. By summarizing the...
Reviewer's Rating A Christmas Carol Mel Cooper 18/12/2017David Edgar, who adapted Dickens’s novel Nicholas Nickleby into an 8-hour epic nearly forty years ago, has managed to adapt...
Reviewer's Rating Twelfth Night Mel Cooper 21/11/2017he new RSC production of Twelfth Night is visually stunning and musically opulent. This, the play by Shakespeare that has...
Reviewer's Rating Coriolanus Mel Cooper 11/10/2017ompleting its season presenting the four major Roman plays of Shakespeare, this is a Coriolanus that is both emotionally engaging...
Reviewer's Rating Dido, Queen of Carthage Mel Cooper 11/10/2017hristopher Marlowe’s first play, “Dido, Queen of Carthage” has been given a splendid and totally engaging production in Stratford. It...
Reviewer's Rating Venus and Adonis Mel Cooper 30/07/2017think it should be reported that the RSC has revived Gregory Doran and Steve Tiplady’s conceptually brilliant rendering for the...
Reviewer's Rating Vice Versa Mel Cooper 25/07/2017ice Versa is a lot of fun, a romp of a production, and I can see, intellectually, how it is...
Reviewer's Rating Julius Caesar/Antony and Cleopatra Mel Cooper 10/07/2017saw the RSC productions of Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra back to back, matinee and evening, last week. I...
Reviewer's Rating Salome Mel Cooper 12/06/2017here was much publicity before the opening of this play about the fact that in this production of Wilde’s erotic...
Reviewer's Rating Antony and Cleopatra Luke Davies 26/04/2017he RSC’s Rome season, which kicks off with Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Ceasar, pitches itself as a series of...