Tag Archives: Ron Cook

Henry V, with Jude Law, Noël Coward Theatre, December 2013

“O for a muse of fire … a kingdom for a stage, princes to act …”. And though they were but actors all, confined to the stage of the Noël Coward Theatre, this Michael Grandage production came over with conviction. The heavy weathered boards of which sets and stage was made gave a feeling of …

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Hamlet, Donmar production, Wyndham’s Theatre, August 2009

Altogether this was a good production, well worth seeing, but I wish Hamlet’s speeches had been given with less force and more subtlety.

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