Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonCaroline Steinbeis gives John Ford's gloomy drama a humorous touch, but the mad laughter sometimes trips over into Carry On-style anticsForced to abandon her beloved Orgilus, and coerced by her brother, Ithocles, into marriage with the elderly, insanely jealous Bassanes, Penthea suffers from a broken heart. She is not the only one similarily afflicted in John Ford's Caroline drama,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56AM on March 19, 2015