Summary
How sad that it has to end like this. After much thrilling work, that remarkable performer Mark Rylance (below with Sian Williams and Liz Collier) bows out after a decade as the Globe's artistic director with two of the biggest disappointments to hit its wooden stage.
He is already starring in a preposterous version of The Tempest for three actors plus dancers and now comes another squall-ridden shambles, a new verse adaptation of Plautus's Roman comedy The Rope by Peter Oswald. Oswald's miserable concoction is small part Pericles-meets-The Tempest, small part A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum and large part mess.See the full content of this document
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The Storm
As if aware of the inadequacy of the piece, Rylan...
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