For the final instalment of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s touring trilogy, the 1604 comedy Measure for Measure has been adapted for the #MeToo generation. In an absorbing production that sees its multifaceted cast members taking on the issue of justice, mercy and sincerity, director Gregory Doran forces us to question if attitudes have shifted. After the duke of Vienna unexpectedly leaves his deputy Angelo (played by Sandy Grierson) in charge, the new commander begins impos

Taking on more transformations than Cinderella, the Lowry theatre sets the stage for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s gender swapping production of the Taming of the Shrew. Justin Audibert’s direction plays with the 1590’s dated societal constructs that sees women traded for property and muzzled for speaking out. Sanitised through its reimagining, that styles the shrews as men and embeds the production with lovably abusive women, the Shakespeare story of social immobility and

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Pied Piper performers are leading audiences into the forest of Arden for a tall tale that reinstates justice through nature. Following a diverse and charismatic cast of wonderfully playful characters, Shakespeare’s fractured 1599 musical comedy has had its prettiest prose paired with a multifaceted set of performances. Filled of spectacle, sentimentality and festivities, director Kimberley Sykes has chosen to take audiences behind the Lowry cur

Shakespeare’s timeless and traditional story of romantic love has been revitalised by Northern Broadsides vivid production. With the duplicated and adored classical comedy reimagining at the end of World War II, the returning men are pitted against a strong cast of independent women who playfully protest their lovers’ advances or simply demand more from their men. Blending Shakespeare’s fast-paced and fanciful language with a spirited cast, Northern Broadsides production, dir