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Cymbeline
The Royal Shakespeare Theatre,
Stratford-upon-Avon
2/5
SHAKESPEARE doesn’t make life easy for director or cast with this late play.
Incorporated in it is a kaleidoscope of styles and some of his most complex language and he almost challenges any company to find coherence in a play that George Bernard Shaw described as “stagey trash of the lowest melodramatic order.”
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