THEATRE Decameron The Gate, London

Ten stories a night, for 10 nights: it doesn't take a great mental effort to work out that staging the Decameron in one evening means either stooping to a kind of Reduced Boccaccio Company absurdity, or cutting the numbers drastically. The most obvious thing to do would be to present a representative selection of 10 tales, one from each night (since each night supposedly deals with a different topic). Nick Ward's version, the latest instalment in the Gate's "New Playwrights, Ancient Sources" season, resists the temptations to give us a statistical sample - he doesn't even give us 10 stories by...