Review: King John
Richard Lutz reviews the RSC production of King John – “The wrong king in the wrong time when the barons made him sign his name on the Magna Carta?”
Theatre Review : The Tempest
Richard Lutz reviews The Tempest; “It is done beautifully. Hats off to the director David Farr and Jonathan Slinger.”
RSC: Loads of Tricks and Lots of Treats
Twelfth Night Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford By Richard Lutz This is a play about the pursuit of love in a crazed, tricky and askew world. Most of the characters are not what they seem. But they all want the same thing: partnership and passion. Twins separate and crave each other; lovers pine for an…
Rough Magic for Pete and Kate
Richard Lutz sits down to see a play that still gets them hot under the collar 4 centuries on The Taming of the Shrew Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford The Taming of the Shrew is one of those Shakespeare plays that enrages people still today. How can it sit comfortably when a guy (Petruchio) bullies, pesters,…
Tough Guy Robin Hood Meets His Match in Marion In a Five Star Production
“Well, how do you like your Robin Hood?”, asks Richard Lutz
Review: Written on The Heart at The Swan, Stratford
There seemed to be a lot of earnest and frantic rustling through the programmes just before the curtain went up for Written on The Heart.
Review: Midsummer Night’s Dream
Richard Lutz enjoys the classic forest comedy by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford: ‘Finally…’ my companion said to me, ‘a Shakespeare comedy that’s funny.’
Theatre: A Sharp and Angry Homecoming for The Homecoming
Richard Lutz reviews Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming at The Swan in Stratford
Merchant of Venice: Review
Richard Lutz takes his seat at Stratford- on- Vegas for the latest Royal Shakespeare Company play. This is a production you will either love or hate: Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice placed emphatically and over the top in Las Vegas complete with Elvis, casinos, drunk gamblers and a Yank accents (some of them suspect). It is…
Review: Dunsinane at Stratford
Richard Lutz takes his seat at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan Theatre for a play about MacBeth …and Afghanistan
RSC in a box to NYC
The Royal Shakespeare Company is set to travel from its traditional home in Stratford-Upon-Avon to the bright lights of New York.
RSC’s City Madam: All Dressed Up with a Need For Some Tailoring
Oooo…Nothing like a ribald play filled with fops, tarts and dandies, writes Richard Lutz
Royal Shakespeare Company’s Cardenio: To Bard Or Not To Bard
Richard Lutz reviews Shakespeare’s lost play at Stratford.
Royal Shakespeare Company’s Macbeth: Too Tricky By Half
Richard Lutz takes his seat for the new season in Stratford
Review: The Tempest at Stratford
Richard Lutz reviews a grown up production that isn’t child’s play
Review: King Lear at Stratford
It was only last winter that I wrote a review of the Stratford production of King Lear. But a year is a long time in the whacky world of Thesbo-land….