Bartholomew Fair review " a merry muddle of Jonson's carnivalesque satire by Michael Billington

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonBlanche McIntyre's hectic production attempts to convey the riotous vice of Ben Jonson's Jacobean London fair, but falters in translation to modernity Ben Jonson's 1614 comedy is an unwieldy beast at the best of times. But a carnivalesque satire that cries out to occupy the Globe's main, open-air theatre is instead done in its intimate, indoor playhouse. Although the space has been reco…

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