Experience: 8/10
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Andrew Hilton
Company: Shakespeare At The Tobacco Factory
Venue: Tobacco Factory
Date: Tuesday 26th March 2013
After a late night yesterday, I confess to nodding off a little in the early stages of this performance, but I got the gist of the staging and by the second half I was all attention. The energy drooped a little in the final scenes, a problem inherent in the play rather than the performances, but otherwise it was a brisk and straightforward telling of the story which managed to come in at just over three hours. We didn’t find it quite as sparkling as previous SATTF productions, but that just means it was very good instead of superb.
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