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'They're teaching me': Greg Doran on staging Shakespeare's unloved Two Gents with students

by Michael Billington

The theatre director, now teaching at Oxford after years running the RSC, thinks The Two Gentlemen of Verona is perfect for a young cast to argue over. We go into rehearsals Which is Shakespeare's least loved play? The Two Gentlemen of Verona would come high on many people's lists. It is clearly apprentice-work. It has had few significant revivals. And it also raises problematic issues since the treacherous Proteus t…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:12am on May 10, 2024