Reviewer's Rating Romeo and Juliet Mel Cooper 09/05/2018I was ultimately quite pleased to have seen the new production of Romeo and Juliet at the RSC. However, I...
Reviewer's Rating Hamlet Austin Fimmano 07/05/2018You will walk away from RSC’s Hamlet with colors exploding in your mind’s eye. Costumes, drapes, headdresses, paintings, and pieces...
Reviewer's Rating The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich Mel Cooper 24/04/2018The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich, which was originally called The Beau Defeated, is a neglected play by a neglected...
Reviewer's Rating Macbeth Mel Cooper 05/04/2018Instead of being about the corruption of power, or about the unconscious power of guilt, this new production of Macbeth...
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 King Lear Nicola Watkinson 02/12/2016ing Lear is one of Shakespeare’s bleakest plays: revolving around broken family ties, jealousy, betrayal, corruption, and madness, it addresses...
Reviewer's Rating Always Orange / Fall of the Kingdom, Rise of the Foot Soldier Mel Cooper 20/08/2016he Making Mischief Festival is, for the RSC, supposed to be about responding to “the challenge with daring explorations of...
Reviewer's Rating Cymbeline Mel Cooper 22/06/2016guess I have been fortunate with Cymbeline because I have seen a couple of revelatory productions in my time, but...
Reviewer's Rating The Alchemist Mel Cooper 22/06/2016long with Jonson’s Volpone, this is one of the peaks of comic-satiric theatre from the Jacobean era and the RSC...
Reviewer's Rating Doctor Faustus Mel Cooper 07/04/2016he new production of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus by director Maria Aberg is possibly the most convincing interpretation of this...
