Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAnders Lustgarten plays fast and loose with history in his tale of the espionage network surrounding Elizabeth I, but the result is vivid and pungentHistory plays, broadly speaking, fall into two categories: those that meticulously recreate the past and those that use it as a metaphor for the present. Anders Lustgarten's new piece is emphatically one of the latter since it finds in the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM on November 23, 2017