Sam Buntrock's production makes nifty use of a traverse stage and yields a number of good performances.
But the strength of the play lies in its emotional specifics, beautifully realised on William Dudley's elegantly sparse traverse stage.
This has a lot to do with the traverse staging which uses the entire length of the Bridewell theatre.
The confusing structure owes little to Lorca, who was a master craftsman, and there are times when the traverse staging renders much of the dialogue inaudible.
When I went to see Tender Napalm it was on a traverse stage, with just two chairs and the sound of a skipping rope.
By placing the action on a traverse stage with each half of the audience facing the other, Papadima requires us to remember that this is performance, not reality.
That's more than 100 people on the very narrow traverse stage we have built in the middle of the new auditorium.
The actors perform on a traverse stage: that is, a long strip between two groups of theatergoers who face each other.
Played at a hectic pace on a narrow traverse stage, Kemp's production could profitably give us a little more time to savour Racine's vision of love as an incurable disease.
And, in Roger Michell's well-paced production played on a William Dudley-designed traverse stage, there is good support from Julian Rhind-Tutt as his appalled brother, Jason Watkins as the government spook and Pippa Haywood as the commercial director.
