The Spectator, March 6th, 2004
Theatre 2 A villain too villainous? Othello Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon This is going to be a pretty testing year for the RSC's new artistic director, Michael Boyd. He's just released three of last year's best shows on the West End and will shortly announce a new London base for the company. Meantime in Stratford the first season with Boyd's name stamped exclusively on it gets under way. Its centrepiece is five of the great tragedies - Othello, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Lear and Hamlet. Concurrently, there'll be a sequence of plays from Shakespeare's Spanish contemporaries, which co...
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