★★★★★It turns out that what Shakespeare’s tale of sparring lovers has been waiting for all these centuries was a relocation to revolutionary Mexico. The director Matthew Dunster, that’s who. This is the most joyous Shakespeare show I’ve seen here for years. Sure, it takes a little while for cast and audience alike to get to grips with the rules of engagement in war-weary 1910 Monterrey (as opposed to 16th-century Messina). Men and women wear stilts and clutch wire-framed horse heads to suggest…

Source: The Times July 20, 2017 23:02 UTC