London’s season of sexed-up Shakespeare
New productions of Richard II and Much Ado About Nothing both burnish their texts with hot celebrity appeal – but couldn’t be further apart aesthetically.
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Anna Leszkiewicz
Anna Leszkiewicz is senior commissioning editor at the New Statesman.
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