The Independent - London, December 15th, 2000
THE ROYAL Shakespeare Company has billed this trilogy The Wars of The Roses or The Plantaganets in past years. This time, they've stuck to what Shakespeare called it, and the only other thing one needs to call it is terrific.
In these plays, England is sundered, healed, and split again, but Michael Boyd's forceful production keeps the constantly changing battle lines as clear as the intertwining bloodlines, in the process splashing buckets of blood around. As the mutilated Bedford roars defiance at Joan of Arc, raising his sword at her with his left arm, she cackles and mockingly waves his se...
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