Shakespeare's The Life and Death of King John, to give the play its full title, is very rarely staged.
Shakespeare's The Life and Death of King John, to give the play its full title, is very rarely staged.
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In fact, this adaptation, by newly appointed co-director of Dundee Rep Philip Howard (part of Oran Mor's season of cut-down classics) is the first production of the Bard's early history play I've seen.
Funnily enough, that obscurity may just work in Howard's favour in terms of drawing audiences in out of curiosity, especially with the corner of Byres Road and Great Western Road being Shakespeare central at the moment, with Bard in the Botanics' productions of The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet. But a minor piece of Shakespearean drama the play remains.
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