SHAKESPEARE TRILOGY King’s Cross Theatre

There aren’t enough parts for women. The solution director Phyllida Lloyd and actress Harriet Walter have come up with is for women to play men’s roles and to justify the casting, Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest are set in a woman’s prison. It doesn’t work because the inmates take precedence over Shakespeare’s characters. The high spot is Walter as Prospero launching into a deeply moving delivery of the lines beginning, “Our revels now are ended.”