Patrick Stewart gave a star turn as Claudius with an understated and confident performance. The layout of the theatre with a large thrust meant that the whole audience felt fully involved with the show and all 1000+ seats in the house seemed to have a very good view of the stage – hard to believe this is a temporary theatre! The only downside I noticed is that the seats are very narrow (I am by no means a large person) and you are forced to be quite friendly with the people you sit next to. The stage design was simple with reflection used to great advantage gaining a wonderful and very clever lighting effect in the first scene.
Of course the star names of David Tennant and Patrick Stewart were enough to ensure the success of this production but the whole show was much more and no-one in the entire company failed to impress. I saw it last week (after Q'ing for 6 hours for return tickets) and it was worth every minute of that Q!
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