Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon: Arden of Faversham is described both as an early domestic tragedy and a black comedy. Polly Findlay, making her RSC directorial debut, has plunged enthusiastically for the comic in this modern-dress version, edited jointly with dramaturg Zoe Svendsen. Based on the real-life murder of Arden, a Kentish businessman, by his unfaithful wife, Alice, and published in 1592, the play is famo…
SOURCE: The Stage at 05:58AM on May 7, 2014