
This is a fascinating year for Shakespeare productions in London, with numerous innovations and reinventions of the Bard’s plays on offer for audiences. The recent trend of cross-casting (in particular, casting female performers in male roles) continues – although, of course, that in itself honours the spirit of Shakespeare’s work, which was originally performed by an all-male company and which features plenty of cross-dressing within the actual stories. These rich, funny, heartbreaking,...