16 May 2024, The Tablet

Rambunctious rewards


Shakespeare and Kureishi nail it

Rambunctious rewards

Ace serve: Jack Bardoe plays Don Armado
Johan Persson

 

Love’s Labour’s Lost

The Buddha of Suburbia

RSC, STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

 

With stories set centuries or decades ago, a key staging question is whether to obey the writer’s timeline or modernise. The new regime at the Royal Shakespeare Company – joint artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey – starts with a sparky example of each.

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