Merchant of Venice Royal Shakespeare Company June 28, 2011, 7:15pm Before the show began, the woman next to me (a British schoolteacher) leaned over and said, “We came because we heard it was controversial.” Her husband smiled dutifully. Rupert Goold’s Merchant of Venice is set in a raucous Las Vegas, complete with card tables, badContinue reading “Merchant of Vegas”
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Foul or Fair
Macbeth Royal Shakespeare Company June 27, 2011, 7:15pm “Macbeth. Macbeth. Macbeth.” Imagine that you’re a soldier in the sixteenth century. You’re at the edges of a battlefield, caked in the blood of your enemies. You make your way through a abandoned, desecrated church: the stained glass windows are smashed to bits, the statues are reducedContinue reading “Foul or Fair”
Sprockets and Springes 