The Revenger's Tragedy review " a Jacobean glam-rock shocker
Nottingham PlayhouseIn an inspired updating, Fiona Buffini relocates Thomas Middleton's play about the abuse of power to a 1970s celebrity world of tight trousers and chest-wigsThomas Middleton's morbid Jacobean shocker is so ludicrously decadent it led the tradition of Renaissance revenge drama down a blood-spattered dead end. But if it is a work barely fit to kiss the hem of Webster, Kyd or Ford " let alone Shakesp…