Women Show Four Sides Of Richard III — londonist.com

Rosemary Tross and Marie Rabe in Richard III at the Rose Only in London would you find yourself sitting in a 400 year old theatre with the remnants of a massive 1980s towerblock over your head. The imperfect nature of the 1587-built Rose theatre’s space is a good description of this Richard III. The all-female version is flawed, but still offers plenty to admire. What impresses most is using the Shakespearean-era acting procedure, which would have seen actors in a company (PDF) take on more than one role (that is, across different productions; Elizabethan actors juggled several parts and productions at once). In Scrawny Cat’s production each one takes a go at Richard, lending a new portrayal of the ‘poisonous bunch-back’d toad’.

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