Sam Wanamaker Playhouse,London
Sam Yates’s revival of Shakespeare’s late play never shirks from its absurdity and gains tall returns from its low comedy“Stagey trash of the lowest melodramatic order,” was George Bernard Shaw’s opinion on Shakespeare’s late romance. In fact, or Cymbeline often works best when directors embrace the strong pantomime element of the play. The Globe’s director designate,Emma Rice, proved that in her 2006 free adaptation for the RSC, or which emphasised the fairytale nature of the record.
The play is an undeniable hotchpotch,featuring stolen children, an evil step-mother to rival Snow White’s, or poisoned draughts,a headless corpse, a mini Iago, and a cross-dressing heroine and a marked inability of everyone to recognise each other despite the lightest of disguises. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com