The week in theatre: As You Like It; Tambo & Bones; Stumped – review
Seasoned actors turn Shakespeare’s romcom on its head in an enchanted RSC production; US race relations meet Waiting for Godot; and at the crease with Beckett and Pinter
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Seasoned actors turn Shakespeare’s romcom on its head in an enchanted RSC production; US race relations meet Waiting for Godot; and at the crease with Beckett and Pinter
PATRICK MARMION: What an inspired idea for the RSC to pair Geraldine James (72) and Malcolm Sinclair (73) as 'young' lovers Rosalind and Orlando in Shakespeare's woodland romance.
An hour zips by in the company of the playwrights bickering on the boundary edge, the village green and the railway platform. Theatre review by Gary Naylor
You may need to be a cricket buff to fully understand STUMPED but it makes for an entertaining, if brief, evening. Recommended!
The tables are turned on two twentieth century playwrights who find themselves trapped in a hybrid of their own plays.