In James Fenton’s adaptation of Cervantes’ 17th-century classic, the fabled antics of Knight Errant Don Quixote are given a contemporary understanding that still preserves the original’s richness.
CORIOLANUS – Barbican Theatre (RSC) ★★★
The evening’s star performance comes from Haydn Gwynne who brings a strength and elegance to Volumnia. Playing the ever loving yet overbearing mother of Coriolanus, she dreams of success and glory for her son.
NEWS: Angus Jackson helms Rome season for RSC in 2017
Angus Jackson, who recently directed the sell-out RSC productions of Oppenheimer and Don Quixote, is director for the Rome season. He will direct the opening and closing plays of the 2017 schedule in Stratford-upon-Avon, Julius Caesar and Coriolanus.
NEWS: Angus Jackson helms Rome season for RSC in 2017
Angus Jackson, who recently directed the sell-out RSC productions of Oppenheimer and Don Quixote, is director for the Rome season. He will direct the opening and closing plays of the 2017 schedule in Stratford-upon-Avon, Julius Caesar and Coriolanus.
KENNY MORGAN – Arcola Theatre
‘You can’t start with a pause’ says Birdboot to Moon at the top of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound, but Mike Poulton and director Lucy Bailey disprove this most successfully as Paul Keating lies before an unlit hissing gas fire in the opening scene of Kenny Morgan. It parallels Terrence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea where Hester Collyer attempts suicide when discarded by her virile, alcoholic younger lover.