Forests – review

Old Rep, BirminghamShakespeare transcends national frontiers; and in this extraordinary Catalan collage, conceived and directed by the vibrantly experimental director Calixto Bieito, you sense the Bard owes as much to Barcelona as to Stratford-upon-Avon. This 100-minute piece, performed by six actors and a musician, is hot-blooded, anarchic and haunted by images of death.Bieito takes the Shakespearean forest as his theme. In the first section, drawing heavily on As You Like It, it becomes a plac...

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