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All's Well That Ends Well review " Shakespeare's problem play lays bare clashing passions by Arifa Akbar

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonChelsea Walker's sleek production wavers between comic and dramatic as it charts a kind of love triangle How does a modern-day production tie up the loose threads to Shakespeare's problem play, with its low-born female lead who entraps a man of higher standing into marriage? Is she a proto-feminist, a social climber or a sexual coercer? And is this a comedy with funerals, or a tragedy w…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PM on November 22, 2024

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