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Staging Shakespeare: Is too much reverence holding UK theatremakers back?

Andrew Scott in Robert Icke’s Hamlet at the Almeida in 2017 (left) and Ciarán O’Brien and Michelle Terry in Twelfth Night at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2021. Photos: Manuel Harlan/Marc Brenner
Andrew Scott in Robert Icke’s Hamlet at the Almeida in 2017 (left) and Ciarán O’Brien and Michelle Terry in Twelfth Night at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2021. Photos: Manuel Harlan/Marc Brenner
UK theatre is rooted in Shakespeare, but there is still an element of fear in the way directors approach his work, and many believe most stagings do not go far enough. Lyn Gardner talks to artistic and academic leaders about breaking down the walls that have often made the playwright untouchable

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