Theatre review: The Roman Tragedies, Barbican, London by Lyn Gardner

Barbican, LondonShakespeare gets a close-up in Toneelgroep's compression of three plays " Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra " a remarkable six-hour marathon played without an interval. If that sounds like a penance, think again: this is an exhilarating pleasure. Director Ivo van Hove gleefully reinvents these tragedies of private obsessions and passions, political ambitions and expediency to make it …

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