Shakespeare in War, More Timely Than Ever

New York Times: "The current investigations into the alleged rape and murder of civilians by American soldiers in Iraq have made such presentations tremble with inescapable timeliness. It seems fitting that Dominic Dromgoole, the new artistic director of the Globe (where he has bravely succeeded the popular Mark Rylance), should have begun his inaugural season with Lucy Bailey's Grand Guignol staging of 'Titus' and his own adrenaline-stoked production of another Roman war play by Shakespeare, 'Coriolanus,' whose arrogant hero (played as if he were a spoiled soccer star by the strapping Jonathan Cake) was schooled by his mother on tales of bloody and heroic combat."