Review: Anne Boleyn, Globe Theatre, London
The company based at the reconstructed Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre on London’s South Bank have delivered another excellent production in the finest traditions of Elizabethan/Jacobean drama.
Complimenting their season of contemporary plays (Much Ado and Dr. Faustus) this modern production by British veteran playwright Howard Brenton presents the story of Henry VIII’s much maligned second wife in Brenton’s usual political context.
Forget the bodice-ripping BBC Tudors or Shakespeare’s own carefully white-washed commissions, this is the Tudor/Jacobean politics of religion at it’s most brutal and polemic… …