Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Tangled threads

Women Beware Women<br /> Olivier, in rep until 4 July Hair<br /> Gielgud, booking until January 2011

Women Beware Women
Olivier, in rep until 4 July

Hair
Gielgud, booking until January 2011

Women Beware Women deserves a subtitle: spectators beware seldom revived classics. Thomas Middleton’s 1622 play is set in the duke’s court at Florence, where greed, lust, incest and the hunger for power are running rampant.

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