Trevor Nunn at the Young Vic and Cardboard Citizens, in a production at Stratford Town Hall, highlighted the play's modernity.
The prominence of the captioning in this intimate shared space highlights the play's themes of communication – and lack of it.
In contrast, the Dublin version highlighted the play's Irishness: its rhythms were different and Pozzo became an overweening colonial landlord.
The often threatening, machinistic work of Howard and Wolstenholme allows Bellamy to smear his soaring vocal and widdly guitar solos over the top – a process that highlights the play of individualistic ecstasies against the monolithic grid patterns beneath.
This highlights the play's emotional highs and lows, the constant twists and turns, the frequent changes of allegiance, and Shakespeare's miscommunications and confusions, such as misdirected love letters and cases of mistaken identity.
Comley highlighted the play of Jim Slater, a junior who is tied for fifth in Division I with 45 points; Mike Lalonde, a junior who leads the Spartans with 21 goals; and the sophomore defenseman Corey Potter.
But Peter Hall, now 80, offers us a resonant chamber-version that highlights the play's verbal splendour and that is filled with an awareness of the still, sad music of humanity.
A gorgeous earthen set by Jane Stein, with tiny houses that appear to grow out of the furniture like barnacles, highlights the play's fascination with the ties among land, home and living.
