Old Rep, Birmingham: It is tempting but pointless to adopt a trainspotter's approach to Calixto Bieito's Catalan-English Shakespearian collage. Here are gobbets of As You Like It, the Histories, Hamlet, Macbeth, Lear, the sonnets and other texts. But this isn't a critics' quiz - Forests must make an impact as a new piece and is probably best appreciated as a cross between a recital and an installa…
SOURCE: The Stage at 06:30AM on September 5, 2012