Best Shakespeare productions: what's your favourite Cymbeline?
The 2001 staging at Shakespeare's Globe, with Mark Rylance tackling a trio of roles, gave clarity to this convoluted playNot a play for rationalists. Dr Johnson wrote of its "unresisting imbecility" and Shaw dubbed it "stagey trash of the lowest melodramatic order". But, although the play is an odd mish-mash of an ancient Britain, classical Rome and Renaissance Italy, it often works in the theatre: partly because of …