Play of the Week: Boris Godunov, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
The Royal Shakespeare Company is the natural home for Pushkin's great drama, with its echoes of Macbeth and the history plays, and its policy of commenting on the political turmoil of its own era, the 1820s, through a depiction of the unrest in an earlier period " Moscow at the cusp of the 17th century.