Kenneth Branagh's entire season has been built on one universal truth. From star to stage-sweeper, pack the production with the best talent and glorious things will inevitably follow. Why then, has that same formula now stumbled? I couldn't have been more predisposed to liking this production, the cast or its director. But Branagh's sweatily Italian and disastrously unfunny production is such a disappointment.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:53AM on May 26, 2016