The Broken Heart, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, review: Ghoulish tragedy but with a sardonic touch
Poor John Ford. As if Shakespeare wasn't a hard enough act to follow, the Jacobean playwright now has to follow a performance by the all-conquering Mark Rylance who starred in the previous production on the Globe's interior candle-lit stage. And as always with Shakespeare's near contemporaries, revivals show up the gap between them and the Bard.