Jumbo soars in uneven Hamlet
Oct 28, 2021
3 minutes
Anne McElvoy on Theatre
● THE RETURN OF THEATRE has been a choppy business — venues are still chary of committing to large-scale productions with large casts outside the doughty return of till-rattlers such as Anything Goes at the Barbican.
It was once joked about the masterful TV comedy that it was “a story about nothing”. is the opposite case — a play about everything in the playwright’s teeming mid-life brain from trauma, depression and madness to disabling mother and father complexes, conflicts of loyalty and existentialist ennui, all set in
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