Theatre: Madness - it's just another act Henry IV Donmar Warehouse LONDON Gone Missing Gate LONDON M.A.D. Bush LONDON

The Independent on Sunday | May 9, 2004| | Copyright

As Magritte might have said: Ceci n'est pas un palais. The Donmar has turned into a medieval palace with minions in hessian tunics leaning against massive stone pillars, waiting for the entrance of the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry IV. However this is a show, and I don't just mean director Michael Grandage is staging another long- overlooked European classic. Written by Luigi Pirandello in 1922, Henry IV obsessively blurs the boundaries between our realities and our fictions.

The characters, we soon learn, are all acting out the fantasy of a rich, modern-age madman (played by Ian McDiarmid) who ...

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