King Cymbeline here becomes a Queen (Martina Laird) of a Gaia-worshipping matriarchy. The commoner Posthumus (Nadi Kemp-Sayfi), for whom her daughter Innogen (Gabrielle Brooks) undergoes traducement ...

Martina Laird as Cymbeline and Gabrielle Brooks as Innogen in Cymbeline at Shakespeare’s Globe (c. Marc Brenner) This gender-swap makes Cymbeline more potent to a contemporary audience ...

There’s not much point in having three hours worth of Shakespearean text to craft and the gorgeous Sam Wanamaker Playhouse as a canvas if you merely intend to go through the motions, ticking off one ...

King Cymbeline here becomes a Queen (Martina Laird) of a Gaia-worshipping matriarchy. The commoner Posthumus (Nadi Kemp-Sayfi), for whom her daughter Innogen (Gabrielle Brooks) undergoes ...

Jennifer Tang's folio-feminising London production at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse proves that bathos conquers all, even if it ...

Cymbeline, here, is not a King of Ancient Britain ... is Imogen - Tang chooses the more obscure spelling of Innogen, as she found it more beautiful - and she stays a she, but her love object ...

By Laura Collins-Hughes “Cymbeline,” really? But why? That tends to be my reaction whenever I hear that the overstuffed late Shakespeare play is getting a revival. Surely there must be ...

Secrets and lies. It’s human nature. A secret marriage changes the course of two ancient kingdoms. For the first time in ten years, see Cymbeline, Shakespeare’s late, tragic comedy of love and ...