The Spanish Tragedy (Planet Theatre Productions) @ The Rose, Bankside
September 11, 2010
Writing about web page http://www.planettheatreproductions.co.uk/ Or perhaps that should be The Spanish Comedy; for Adrian Brown’s new production of Kyd’s epochal play understood the play primarily through burlesque. To render Elizabethan revenge tragedies disproportionately comic is, of course, a standard modern strategy, often used to great effect in productions of Titus Andronicus and even Hamlet, …
Spanish Tragedy
October 21, 2009
Writing about web page http://www.arcolatheatre.com/?action=showtemplate&sid=366 I’d completely missed this: a production of The Spanish Tragedy at the Arcola in London. Rather desperate to see this, but don’t think there’s any chance of me getting down to London before November 14th. If you’ve never seen or read this play, book now – essential viewing, particularly if …
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