Bertie Carvel is brilliant in The 47th, Mike Bartlett's ingenious play about the former US president, but the real parallel is not with the Bard's kings but his hollow braggarts If you want to satirise a power figure or a political movement, you automatically reach for Shakespeare. Theatrical history is littered with examples. In 1937, Orson Welles staged a modern-dress Julius Caesar that evoked the worlds of Nazi Ge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM on April 14, 2022