Poke me (or, you know, just check neadods' journal, because I think she's the one who posted the link) and I'll dig up the indepth review of the production someone posted a week or two back.

I was in London just a smidgen too early to catch this -- it killed me, that I was juggling my schedule to be late enough to catch one friend in town and early enough for another to be home in time to move out of her apartment, and so couldn't be there after the show started in late July -- but then again the friend who was staying for six weeks and was planning to catch the show (and who has issues with advance planning, in that she did shit like not try to get her plane ticket until two weeks in advance) found out that it was sold out and she'd have to sell a kidney just to afford a ticket on eBay. Meanwhile one of my London friends was talking about how he'd seen Stewart playing in something else Shakespeare a year or two back because he's got the RSC membership, and was debating using his membership to get a set of the London tickets when they went on sale and then make a killing with them on eBay. I did not report this conversation to the friend who was so crushed at not getting the ticket -- the more so since she was initially invited to the dinner with my local friends including the one who had the RSC membership, and I wound up ditching her on the way there due to travel incompatibility and general feduppedness and bitchitude.