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Yes, we like it
GORDON PARSONS relishes a Shakespearean comedy played at pace for sheer delight
AS YOU JAM IT: the cast of As You Like It
[Marc Brenner]
The Bard stands with the Reformers of Peterloo, and their shared genius in teaching history with music and song
SUE TURNER is fascinated by a book that researches who the largely immigrant workforce were that built the Empire State
MARIA DUARTE and MALC McGOOKIN review Sirat, The Testament of Ann Lee, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, and All You Need Is Kill
STEVE ANDREW recommends a Marxist analysis of the long chains of production that global corporations exploit
MARY CONWAY relishes the period detail but misses the drama in this unsatisfactory dramatisation of the subjugated life of George Eliot
IAN SINCLAIR welcomes a mainstream scholar to the ranks of left-wing critique of US foreign policy
As You Like It
The Holloway Garden Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
SHAKESPEARE’s reference in Romeo and Juliet to “the two-hour traffic of our stage,” when modern productions of the Bard’s works normally extend to nearer three, has left theatre historians some evidence of how contemporary productions of his plays may have been handled at his bankside Globe theatre.
Perhaps a visit to the RSC’s temporary Avon-side summer theatre with Brendan O’Shea’s 80-minute As You Like It may provide something more of a practical demonstration.
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