CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Theatre back in the Bard old days
Rating: A trip to the theatre feels like a reckless and dangerous business these days. For my wife's birthday, we dared a West End show last month. I was afraid to clear my throat, in case it was mistaken for a cough and panic swept the stalls. But as Professor Suzannah Lipscomb discovered in Walking Tudor England (5 Select), in Shakespeare's time an evening of drama really could turn into a crisis. At The Globe theatre on the South Bank, a pregnant woman and her daughter on the front row were killed when a special effect blew up. As Professor Suzannah Lipscomb (above with Tudor dancers at...
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