Romeo and Juliet Mel Cooper 09/05/2018 I was ultimately quite pleased to have seen the new production of Romeo and Juliet at the RSC. However, I do have some serious quibbles. Romeo and Jul...
Hamlet Austin Fimmano 07/05/2018 You will walk away from RSC’s Hamlet with colors exploding in your mind’s eye. Costumes, drapes, headdresses, paintings, and pieces of the set are bri...
The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich Mel Cooper 24/04/2018 The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich, which was originally called The Beau Defeated, is a neglected play by a neglected playwright named Mary Pix. I like...
Macbeth Mel Cooper 05/04/2018 Instead of being about the corruption of power, or about the unconscious power of guilt, this new production of Macbeth by Polly Findlay at the RSC in...
Imperium: The Cicero Plays Mel Cooper 08/01/2018 The RSC has done a remarkable job of turning Robert Harris’s Cicero Trilogy into a stage work. By summarizing the action of Volume I, which deals with...
King Lear Nicola Watkinson 02/12/2016 King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s bleakest plays: revolving around broken family ties, jealousy, betrayal, corruption, and madness, it addresses the p...
Always Orange / Fall of the Kingdom, Rise of the Foot Soldier Mel Cooper 20/08/2016 The Making Mischief Festival is, for the RSC, supposed to be about responding to “the challenge with daring explorations of language, race, gender and...
Cymbeline Mel Cooper 22/06/2016 I guess I have been fortunate with Cymbeline because I have seen a couple of revelatory productions in my time, but above all was taught it by a brill...
The Alchemist Mel Cooper 22/06/2016 Along with Jonson’s Volpone, this is one of the peaks of comic-satiric theatre from the Jacobean era and the RSC has done us a service both in playing...
Doctor Faustus Mel Cooper 07/04/2016 The new production of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus by director Maria Aberg is possibly the most convincing interpretation of this play that I ...
