When from the first to last

Hello everyone!

I am interested in your perspective and preferences: do you like to see a play at the beginning of a run, somewhere in the middle or at the end?

 

All’s Well that Ends Well

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

This is one of Shakespeare’s plays I have been more sceptical about – it seems hard to me to get behind a female lead, full of agency as she is, who effectively forces a man into marriage (twice!), or to get behind a man, wronged as he is, whose major character notes are rudeness and lechery. But the Globe managed to bring together a set of wonderfully flawed, real people, with a depth of love and friendship outside the lead romance, and hope that maybe they would all be better for their experiences. All might actually be well after all.