THEATRE: Autocrats behaving badly THE ROMAN ACTOR; Swan Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon

The Independent - London | June 4, 2002| | Copyright

Playing a megalomaniac Roman emperor might, you would have thought, have given Antony Sher the perfect excuse to hurtle headlong in his favourite direction these days: way over the top. But there's a nifty black wit and plenty of tonal variety in his vivid, larger- than-life portrait of Domitian in Philip Massinger's The Roman Actor. The play, a rarely performed tragedy from 1626, is revived now by Sean Holmes in a RSC production that is full of attractive vigour and incisiveness.

Resembling some peculiarly decadent pit bull terrier, Sher's shaven- headed tyrant makes psychotic swings ...

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