The Marriage of Figaro , Coliseum, London
Coliseum, London: Fiona Shaw returns to revive her strenuous 2011 production. More worrying than the wealth of contextualising stage business is a muddled visual concept which sets the action in a drab geometric maze with Count Almaviva the minotaur at its heart. The revolve is over-used and the extraneous layers tend to overwhelm real human emotions even when well projected by a youthful cast. Read the full review