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Shakespeare in another space
Northampton’s Royal and Derngate theatre is marking the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death with a production of The Herbal Bed, first produced at the legendary Other Place theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. PETER FROST reports
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THE Royal and Derngate’s artistic supremo James Dacre is never predictable and his latest contribution to the Shakespeare commemorations is The Herbal Bed by Peter Whelan, a play exploring the life of Shakespeare’s daughter.
Directed by James Dacre for English Touring Theatre, it is a remarkable production of a remarkable play.
It was written in the 1990s, when the Nolan Committee had laid down some basic principles on standards in public life and just as John Major’s Tory government carried out the most blatant lying whitewash with the Scott report on British arms dealers’ corruption abroad.
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