Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonSet in a post-Brexit dystopia, Melly Still's production is odd, excessive and over-stuffed with ideas but it's unafraid of emotion and boasts fine performancesCymbeline has rarely had a good press. Dr Johnson wrote of its "unresisting imbecility" and George Bernard Shaw dubbed it "stagey trash of the lowest melodramatic order". Yet it often works in the theatre, and Melly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM on May 11, 2016