Review: Twelfth Night at Barbican

Review: Twelfth Night at Barbican

Puwanarajah rarely opts for the easy laugh Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare’s most performed comedies and when it comes to the back end of the year many turn to it as a seasonal offering, although the text makes no direct reference to Christmas. It depicts, however, a time for feasting and fun, writes Christopher Peacock. The play, directed once again by Prasanna Puwanarajah after his sold-out run at Stratford-upon- Avon, opens when Viola fin…

Twelfth Night: RSC at the Barbican

Sometimes a director tries too hard to bring a novel or unusual interpretation to Shakespeare’s work, producing a confused and ultimately unsatisfactory production. This unfortunately is the case with Prasanna Puwanarajah’s version of Twelfth Night for the Royal Shakespeare Company, recently transferred to the Barbican from Stratford. There is much to like about this production. The acting was universally good and used Shakespeare’s words for th…

Twelfth Night - Barbican, London

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Prasanna Puwanarajah Following a successful run in Stratford-Upon-Avon last December, the Royal Shakespeare Company transfers its very sombre version of Twelfth Night to the Barbican for a London run where it joins a number of fairly bleak end of the year shows including the National Theatre’s Playboy of the Western World [...] The post Twelfth Night – Barbican, London appeared first on The Reviews Hub.