2011: Horrifying Hamlet, Enrapturing Elbow, and Intense Iranian drama
The Barbican as always led the way in London in international theatre programming. The year there ended on a high, with Thomas Ostermeier's Hamlet from the Schaubühne laying down new markers for transgressive commitment. I was sceptical about it when I saw the Berlin première in 2008, and our own critic was not, commendably enough, in a mood to be fooled around with. Yet a production which stages, so stylistically,…
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