Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonAt first, Ian McDiarmid's performance seems way too actorly " like a TV historian overly eager to communicate enthusiasm. Stripped to the waist to perform his morning ablutions, he describes the Ptolemaic universe to his housekeeper's young son (luminous Matthew Aubrey) with the aid of a chart. Then he illustrates his contrasting, heretical view of the Earth's rotation around the sun using an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on February 16, 2013