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Cardenio
Opens: 14/04/2011 Closes: 06/10/2011
RSC Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
The legwork undertaken to create this ‘re-imagining' of Shakespeare's lost play, billed as a thriller, is reason alone to go and see it. RSC Chief Associate director Gregory Doran researched and reconstructed missing pieces using a 1612 Don Quixote translation and an 18th-century adaptation of the original, among other sources.
For more information visit:
http://www.rsc.org.uk/whats-on/cardenio/
Buy:
http://www.rsc.org.uk/buy-tickets/cardenio/
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The Independent“Shakespeare with a stylish Spanish twist...” In one of the many moments in Cardenio, exhilaratingly assembled and directed for the RSC by Greg Doran, that is precariously poised on the cusp between consciously camp and inadvertent humour...
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Guardian“Ultimately moving drama...” Should both please audiences and keep academic scholars in work for years...
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Whatsonstage.com“I think I might go again...” When it’s delivered in fine style in an exceptionally accomplished production by the Royal Shakespeare Company, you know you’re in for something really rather special...
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The Telegraph“Spirited, entertaining...” One of those enjoyable discoveries in which the Swan has long specialised, though the jury must still be out on just how much of this play is Shakespeare’s...
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