Aletheia Dolorosa wrote:This is why I think the production I saw handled it so well. It had a focus on hypocrisy more generally, rather than the specific moral concerns of the play, which, as you say, are harder to relate to in the 21st century. Obviouslybut it was done in such a way that it seemed simply an element of the current sleazy, hypocritical political climate - something that, in New South Wales, is, unfortunately, easy to relate to.Spoiler:
That's excellent. It's amazing how if you look at the twentieth century production history of virtually any Shakespeare play, every decade has its own radical reinterpretations. The plays seem capable of speaking not just to every age but to every apparently isolated circumstance in history, so long as a talented director is at work.
