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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nick Curtis

Richard III at Shakespeare's Globe review: Michelle Terry shines but the show is shouty and unfocused

Usually the most inclusive of London’s major theatres, the Globe was criticised when it announced its non-disabled artistic director Michelle Terry would play Shakespeare’s only disabled protagonist.

Surprise, surprise, Terry leads an all-female or gender fluid cast in a production from which Richard III’s physical impairments, and all textual reference to them, have been removed.

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