... the overpowering set – miles of white marble – contributed a coldness and stiff formality to the tale of witty bantering and deceitful deeds. Sunken pools were cleverly used and the whole set converted smoothly into church and tomb.

Act and Scene
Credit
Anne Adams, Birmingham Daily News
Date
1988
Copyright
©

... a delightful Sicilian piazzo dominated by Leonarto’s terracotta palazzo.

Act and Scene
Credit
Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph
Date
2002
Copyright
©

[The] exquisite ... set designs of reflecting and transparent glass screens with their delicate Japanese water garden prints, say far more about the delusions of being able to see the truth – the undeniable subject of the play.

Act and Scene
Credit
Gordon Parsons, Morning Star
Date
1982
Copyright
©

It is set in an anonymous plastic hangar, into which trundles…heavyweight properties – a civic monument, a group of fossilised bushes – none of which establishes any strong sense of locale.

Act and Scene
Credit
Irving Wardle, The Times
Date
1968
Copyright
©

[The] decision to opt for the empire in its heyday underlines the traditions and attitudes then in vogue, which serve as a background for the play’s themes of love, sin, male action and female insight.

Act and Scene
Credit
Ray Seaton, Wolverhampton Express & Star
Date
1976
Copyright
©

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