Lucky are we, who have barely any understanding of Dmitri Shostakovich’s music – filled with sounds of war, we who are enjoying decades of peace have no means of understanding the allusions the composer had embedded into this piece of music.
Despite being a dusted classic, Tennessee Williams’s play about fallen angel Lawrence Shannon the brilliant Clive Owen), who goes through a mental breakdown at Maxine Faulk’s (also fantastic Anna Gunn) verandah leaves the audience with an odd feeling of visiting sunny Puerto Vallarta in Mexico.
“If music be the food of love, play on” – says Duke Orsino in a famous opening line of Twelfth Night or What You Will, arguably the funniest of Shakespeare’s comedies.
Juliet Forster has directed two plays for this year’s Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre at Blenheim. While her take on Midsummer Night’s Dream is interesting, she has overshadowed herself with her Romeo and Juliet.
