Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Orange Tree; Finborough, LondonShakespeare's wife moves centre stage in Lolita Chakrabarti's pivotal adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet, while urgent productions from two small London theatres tackle recent history head on Hamnet, a play with a plague-driven plot, is the first opening at the Swan since the pandemic closure. Not since Matilda has there been such a female-centred…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AM on April 16, 2023