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Rachel Wilson (Mary Brenham) Kate Stuart (Dabby Bryant) Huw Randall (officer Ralph Clark). An amateur theatre production of Our Country's Good by Chatsworth Players (2024) Directed by Maggie Ford ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Background  Our Country’s Good by contemporary playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker is based on the 1987 published novel  The Playmaker by Australian novelist, Thomas Keneally, which tells of a group of convicted criminals, soldiers and marine officers transported from Britain

John Douglas Thompson as Othello and Juliet Rylance as Desdemona Othello  Royal Shakespeare Theatre 2024 Directed by Tim Carroll Photograph by Rohan Persson ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Partially set in Venice and in Cypress this authentic version of Othello  - directed by Tim Carroll is a genius RSC production. The male contingents of the play are mainly officers or noblemen/religious representatives. The Venetian senator, Brabantio cannot bear the idea of daughter, Desdemona being married to the

Samantha Spiro (Mistress Meg Page) and Siubhan Harrison (Mistress Alice Ford)  The Merry Wives of Windsor The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Summer 2024 Photograph : Manuel Harlan 'So many superlatives can be used to describe the company's coming together to deliver this fine production of The Merry Wives of Windsor .' Debra Hall, critic (2024) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ We must agree with the director when she says that: “ The Merry Wives of Windsor is one of Shakespeare's most underrated plays [..

Rosie Sheehy as Puck  A Midsummer Night's Dream Royal Shakespeare Theatre 2024 Photograph Pamela Raith (c) RSC A Midsummer Night's Dream  The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford Upon Avon (until 30 March 2024) Directed by Eleanor Rhode ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Using a popular French phrase to describe key elements of this production of The Bard's A Midsummer Night's Dream  seems a little out of place, but the direction and input of illusion designer, John Bulleid, definitely adds a certain 'je