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Playwright: William Shakespeare Director: Ian Brown Reviewer: Rosie Revell The Public Reviews Rating: Like any scarred A-Level English Literature student, after the exams, I packed away my much annotated copy of Hamlet and paid no further attention to Shakespeare. It was probably more likely that I vowed never to put myself through it again. So it is with [...]

Hands up who likes feeling alive? Like, slap bang, in your face, right here, right now, lucid vision, quick mind, heightened senses and an almighty appreciation of the spanking marvellous world we exist in, alive? Or there are those other days: the lead limbed, fog flunked zombie days. Brain is mashed potato, your heartbeat’s as [...]

Writer:William Shakespeare Director: Michael Grandage Reviewer:Maggie Constable The Public Reviews Rating: “The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us”, an Edgar line in King Lear which I learnt some moons ago and have never forgotten. How well it sums up both King Lear the play and the character. In Shakespeare’s tragedy, the [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Michael Grandage Reviewer: Sarah Medcalf The Public Reviews Rating: Shakespeare’s great tragedy tells of a powerful King who descends into madness after disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on flattery alone, with disregard for love and family ties, resulting in tragic and far-reaching consequences for all. In the Donmar [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: David Farr Reviewer: Toni Stott-Rates The Public Reviews Rating: My exposure to King Lear has been rather confined to strange movie offerings and a hasty and limp look at it in high school, so it was with a smidge of interest and whole lot of worry that I came to this production to [...]