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 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 The Duchess of Malfi Mel Cooper 20/03/2018The DUCHESS OF MALFI by John Webster is one of the most difficult plays of the Jacobean Era both to...
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...
