★★★☆☆ Lolita Chakrabarti’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s bestseller for the Royal Shakespeare Company is skilful and engaging, but it cannot begin to equal the power of the original.

★★★★☆ Pace, energy and power politics ripple far beyond the world of ancient Rome in this stylish new production of Julius Caesar

★★★★☆ A powerful female Prospero as magician and prophet sets the tone in this ambitious and inventive production of Shakespeare’s final, single author play, The Tempest.