Timing is everything: how plays find their moments
Whether it's coalition government, banking or war, scenes or subjects " even apparently inconsequential " can take on a new resonance for audiences in the light of current eventsA director once told me that the main purpose of rehearsals for a modern Shakespeare production was to "get rid of the unintended laughs". But as long as the audience is laughing with, rather than at, the play, accidental resonances are one o…