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COPYRIGHT 2001 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
The Prisoner's Dilemma (The Other Place, Stratford)
These are crucial times for the RSC as it seeks to break out of the Barbican in London and to build a new theatre on the banks of the Avon. Maybe not a bad idea, then, that its processes of re-invention should include a touch of self-flagellation in asking Peter Barnes, less bardolator than iconoclast, for a play about the Shakespeare industry and its founding father David Garrick.
Jubilee is named for the 1769 Stratford celebrations which though a wash-out, quite literally so, consolidated the great actor's sense of co-identity with his idol, while simultaneously giving the Warwickshire backwater (`the armpit of England', according to one...
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