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Ralegh: the Treason Trial, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse review - gripping verbatim court case

by Heather Neill

Jacobean and contemporary justice collide in audience-involving dramaForget the cloak in the puddle. Never mind potatoes and tobacco. The children's book cliché of Sir Walter Raleigh (or Ralegh as he seems to have preferred in an age of changeable spelling) represents little of the real man and is at best misleading. The cloak incident was a later invention and potatoes and tobacco were already known before Ralegh's…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 9:36pm on November 28, 2018