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 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...
Reviewer's Rating Vice Versa Mel Cooper 25/07/2017ice Versa is a lot of fun, a romp of a production, and I can see, intellectually, how it is...
Reviewer's Rating Salome Mel Cooper 12/06/2017here was much publicity before the opening of this play about the fact that in this production of Wilde’s erotic...
Reviewer's Rating The Seven Acts of Mercy Mel Cooper 05/12/2016he newly commissioned play at he RSC, The Seven Acts of Mercy by Anders Lustgarten is an interesting and successful...
Reviewer's Rating The Rover Harry Tennison 02/10/2016phra Behn lived a tumultuous life. She was a poet, translator, novelist, playwright, and, briefly, a spy. She was a...
Reviewer's Rating The Two Noble Kinsmen Harry Tennison 26/09/2016he authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen is one of Shakespeare experts favourite topics of discussion. The consensus now is...
Reviewer's Rating The Rover Mel Cooper 20/09/2016his is quite simply a brilliant production of a brilliant play; and if there were only one thing you could...