Stuart Jones

Review of Almeida Theatre

I've loved this theatre since it (re)opened decade...

I've loved this theatre since it (re)opened decades ago. I haven't loved the recent artistic policy so much. But the production of The Duchess of Malfi I saw there recently was very good, intelligent, lucid and funny when it needed to be. They cut the 'lu atics' scene - political correctness no doubt, which left the duchess nowhere to come from with 'the robin red breast and the nightingale never live long in cages.'