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This engaging production makes the most of a small cast and minimal staging, but needs more urgency early on

Theatre by the Lake's Round the World in 80 Days is an action-packed, energetic, hilarious whirlwind of a show.

Pacy, vigorous, entrancing.

At just under five hours, Troy Story, the RSC’s adaptation of as many tales from Greek myth, takes about a third as long as it does to recite the whole of the Il At just under five hours, Troy Story, the RSC’s adaptation of as many tales from Greek myth, takes about a third as long as it does to recite the whole of the Iliad. It feels like longer. Gregory Doran’s production is ambitious in its starkness, but never quite manages to break out of the plodding rhythm of its lines – or to bring the stories into the 21st century. (The venture, undertaken without sets or costumes...

Updated Anne Odeke, Andrew French and Alice Blundell in The Rage of Achilles It sounds crass to suggest that this year of great heartbreak and loss could turn out to be in any way good for the arts. The past ten months have laid waste to so many lives, livelihoods and dreams; it is doubtful that anyone will look back on 2020 with fondness. And yet the extraordinary nature of these times is leading to works of extraordinary creativity, with artists doing things that are genuinely new. There is a production of A Christmas Carol which dissolves the boundary between cinema and theatre. There is...