Southwark Playhouse, London A defiant duchess takes on a corrupt clergyman in this vigorous revival of James Shirley's cracking 17th-century playJames Shirley (1596-1666) is one of British theatre's best-kept secrets. It is therefore fascinating, on purely historical grounds, to see a revival of a play first staged in 1641 just before the Puritan closure of London's theatres. Justin Audibert also gives this cracking …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM on May 1, 2017