MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
Mystery Plays
York Minster
3/5
PLAYS don’t get much more epic than depicting the biblical fall of the rebel angels through to the last judgement in three hours.
But designer Max Jones and writer Mike Poulton have confidently risen to the occasion with a production of the York Mystery Plays that’s ambitious yet relishes minor detail.
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
GEORGE FOGARTY is dazzled by a breathtakingly skillful puppet version of Shakespeare’s greatest love poem
MARY CONWAY becomes impatient with the intellectual self-indulgence of Tom Stoppard in a production that is, nevertheless, total class
PETER MASON applauds a stage version of Le Carre’s novel that questions what ordinary people have to gain from high-level governmental spying


