Cymbeline is one of Shakespeare's more obscure tragedies but none the less a great one which I have seen on stage in period costume. This mania to update Shakespeare is driving me totally mad and I can't take much more of it. In an attempt to make it all seem much more relevant, these updates fail miserably as was the case with Ralph Fiennes CORIOLANUS or Julie Taymor's attempt at Shakespeare. In Shakespeare's state of Anarchy, the takeover of everything contemporary: cops, robbers, bike gangs and god knows what else was not only annoying but of pure hatred on my part. A dismal failure. AVOID! AVOID! AVOID!
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