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Review: As You Like It – Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds

All the worlds a stage, and the current touring cast of The Globe Theatre’s As You Like It have certainly taken the Bard at his word, taking their Elizabethan booth theatre up and down the country playing in stately homes, gardens and castle grounds. As autumn sets in, they head indoors, bringing the Forest of…

Review: Doctor Faustus – Shakespeare’s Globe

The Devil has all the best tunes and, in Shakespeare’s Globe’s first staging of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, he also has a cracking play. Arguably Marlowe’s most famous play also holds a unique place in theatrical history, the only play of the period to explicitly cover religion, a surprising move given Marlowe’s atheist credentials. Wittenberg…