Reading Abbey RuinsBeth Flintoff's atmospheric Reformation drama casts Henry VIII as a Boris-like bully, and is staged amid the ruins of his Catholic frenemy's abbey With so many people now knowing the beginning, middle and end of Henry VIII's breach with Rome from the success on page, stage and screen of Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell trilogy, conventional dramatic tension is impossible. So contemporary retellings …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32AM on June 18, 2021