In Tom Piper's design, a set of burnished doors dominates a bare stage that spreads out like the fingers of a hand through the audience...
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Susannah Clapp, The Observer
- Date
- 2001
- Copyright
- ©
All the world's a hospital or lunatic asylum and all the men and women in it merely aspects of some disease or other.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Daily Telegraph
- Date
- 1975
- Copyright
- ©
It is set and clothed in dark metallic surroundings, some of them distractingly hinting at the expanded metal mesh so much used in modern building, but, taken as a whole, deeply suggestive of the darkness and bloodiness of the merciless action.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Gerard Fay, The Guardian
- Date
- 1964
- Copyright
- ©
The set (by Tim Hatley) combines simplicity and versatility…A bare dais fronts a grey wall punctuated by doors.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Andrew St George, Financial Times
- Date
- 1992
- Copyright
- ©
[The] imposing design of arches, screen and panelling, with heraldic shields and four huge tombs, is appropriate even at Bosworth. Throughout the play, we are in an evocative medieval world with hints of York Minster and Westminster Council Chamber.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Michael Coveney, Financial Times
- Date
- 1984
- Copyright
- ©
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