Harold Pinter, London; Leeds Playhouse; Lyric Hammersmith, LondonToby Jones and Rosalind Eleazar make light work of Ian Rickson's overfreighted new Chekhov. Plus, wall-to-wall zombie horror and a female Dr FaustusTwo pre-20th-century speeches are guaranteed to shake modern environmentalists. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, emotional chaos takes vegetal form: tumultuous prescience was Shakespeare's gift. In Uncle Vanya …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM on February 2, 2020