Published: July 19, 2019
Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne
Melbourne Theatre Company’s adaptation of the Oscar-winning romcom works so well on stage you wonder why it was a film in the first place
It’s often a bad sign when a major selling point for a show is the costumes. And there’s no getting away from the fact that in the Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare in Love, design is king (or, more fittingly perhaps, queen).
From the moment the lights come up on the set, this show is a sumptuous feast for the eye. An azure curtain sweeps up from stage left and across the flies, framing an Elizabethan fantasia of blue and gold that for the next two and half hours continually surprises and delights with its variations.
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