Arts: History repeats itself at the RSC; Director Michael Attenborough talks to Terry Grimley about the abiding fascination of Shakespeare's history plays.(National)

From: The Birmingham Post (England) | Date: June 27, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Cynics used to say that when the Royal Shakespeare Company was in trouble at the box office it was time to roll out another cycle of the history plays.

But the current two-year cycle, This England - the most extensive it has ever undertaken - comes at a time when the company is in rude health. The general consensus is that the RSC is in excellent artistic form, audience figures in Stratford are good, and company morale is almost ostentatiously high.

The first two instalments of This England, Richard II directed by Steven Pimlott at The Other Place and Henry IV, Part I ...

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