Lyric Hammersmith; Park theatre; King's Head theatre, LondonEven Timberlake Wertenbaker can't quite ignite Racine's tyrannical hero; Harry Hill's New Labour musical is a gag-filled joy; and the spirits move for Mark Ravenhill When Jean Racine wrote Britannicus in 1669, he was governed by the French classical idea that required a play to occur within real time, in a single place, during the course of a day. But for a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM on June 12, 2022