The Duchess of Malfi Mel Cooper 20/03/2018 The DUCHESS OF MALFI by John Webster is one of the most difficult plays of the Jacobean Era both to interpret and to direct. Uncut, it is a complex, m...
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...
Dido, Queen of Carthage Mel Cooper 11/10/2017 Christopher Marlowe’s first play, "Dido, Queen of Carthage" has been given a splendid and totally engaging production in Stratford. It completely vind...
Venus and Adonis Mel Cooper 30/07/2017 I think it should be reported that the RSC has revived Gregory Doran and Steve Tiplady’s conceptually brilliant rendering for the stage of Shakespeare...
Vice Versa Mel Cooper 25/07/2017 Vice Versa is a lot of fun, a romp of a production, and I can see, intellectually, how it is a considered pastiche of old Roman Comedy and why it is s...
Salome Mel Cooper 12/06/2017 There was much publicity before the opening of this play about the fact that in this production of Wilde’s erotic jewel of a play by director Owen Hor...
The Seven Acts of Mercy Mel Cooper 05/12/2016 The newly commissioned play at he RSC, The Seven Acts of Mercy by Anders Lustgarten is an interesting and successful evening in the theatre. The stagi...
The Rover Harry Tennison 02/10/2016 Aphra Behn lived a tumultuous life. She was a poet, translator, novelist, playwright, and, briefly, a spy. She was a feminist who embraced a rock and ...
The Two Noble Kinsmen Harry Tennison 26/09/2016 The authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen is one of Shakespeare experts favourite topics of discussion. The consensus now is that John Fletcher and Will...
The Rover Mel Cooper 20/09/2016 This is quite simply a brilliant production of a brilliant play; and if there were only one thing you could get to see at Stratford this year, so far ...
