Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThis atmospheric recreation of Sir Walter Raleigh's show trial set off many modern echoes and featured strong performances from Simon Paisley Day and Nathalie ArminSir Walter Raleigh (or Ralegh) probably never did lay his splendid cloak across that muddy puddle for Elizabeth I. But he was an arrogant swashbuckler and a military devotee of the Elizabethan anti-Spanish regime. So when Eli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM on December 2, 2018