BBC iPlayer Covid-postponed production moves the play to the 1950s but lacks the inventiveness of the National's recent Romeo and Juliet This RSC production opens in a 20th-century Sicilia and modernises the play's themes of paranoid leadership and patriarchal abuse in subtle yet powerful ways. The word "tyranny" sounds emphatic here, jumping out again and again and chiming with the postwar era in which it is situate…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36PM on April 25, 2021