Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe, London (****)
Seeing Dominic Dromgoole’s swan-song production some time after its official opening, your reviewer can report that it can only be regarded as a bonus. Continue reading
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe, London (****)
Seeing Dominic Dromgoole’s swan-song production some time after its official opening, your reviewer can report that it can only be regarded as a bonus. Continue reading
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe, London
Revenge tragedy it ain’t. There’s no revenger `hero’ to go on a murdering journey of justice though the body count does mount up at the end. But Middleton and Rowley’s The Changeling (1622 or thereabouts) bears all the hallmarks of the genre: blood, gore, lust, a ghost or two, sexual blackmail with morality finally emerging in an act of reconciliation.