If audiences are so well-versed in theatre, why is there so much fuss about poetry onstage? by Lyn Gardner

Blank verse can be wonderfully contemporary, and spoken-word works such as Kate Tempest's sell-out Brand New Ancients prove that theatre producers shouldn't fear poetryWould you attend a play written in blank verse? Of course you would; every day thousands of people go to see Shakespeare and a significant proportion probably don't even clock that it's poetry. As Ian McKellen observed: "It never worries me " in fact I…

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