Pericles review " Shakespeare's epic checks into the emergency ward by Michael Billington

Barbican, London There are shades of Casualty as Cheek By Jowl's briskly ingenious production confines the entire action to a hospitalHow do you give unity to Pericles? It has a rambling narrative that takes us round the Med in 14 years and is clearly the work of Shakespeare and a lesser writer: you can actually hear, rather than see, the join at the start of the third act. Declan Donnellan's answer to the problems i…

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