★★★★☆It’s been 50 years since Tom Stoppard’s play about two Hamlet has-beens who never were much anyway was first performed in London. That’s a long time to keep a doublet act going, particularly when they didn’t know where they were in the first place. Joshua McGuire is equally good as his friend, Guilden-thingy-whatsit, a man permanently on the verge of making a decision. Between the two of them, they couldn’t find a plot in a Shakespearean play. When The Times theatre critic Irving Wardle reviewed this play in 1967 he saw it both…

Source: The Times March 08, 2017 00:14 UTC