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 Titus Andronicus Mel Cooper 22/07/2017he RSC has another solid success on its hands with this intelligent, energetic production of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. For centuries...
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 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...
Reviewer's Rating The Tempest Mel Cooper 21/11/2016here is a great deal of publicity about the use of contemporary technology that has been applied to make the...
Reviewer's Rating King Lear Mel Cooper 12/09/2016his is one of the most intelligent readings of King Lear that I have ever seen. For once, you do...
Reviewer's Rating Hamlet Harry Tennison 01/06/2016nlike the recent Barbican production, Simon Godwin creates a Hamlet fit for the 21st Century. The transformation of Shakespeare’s revenge...
Reviewer's Rating Hamlet Mel Cooper 11/04/2016his is an intelligent, energetic and original Hamlet that should have even the most jaded student of the play reconsidering...