The Apollo Theatre Players present Shakespeare’s rich and complex play, which incorporates themes of power, ageing, justice and injustice, loss and redemption.

While the plot of the play, written in 1610-11 and thought by many critics to be the last that Shakespeare wrote alone, is well known, its lyrical beauty and other-worldliness set it apart from the majority of his canon.

The play has an eerie and dreamlike quality, and even though it is one of Shakespeare’s shortest, most simply constructed plays the beauty of its language gives it power.

The Players set the play in the courtyard of an Elizabethan inn, where a troupe of travelling players present the play to the locals and engage with the audience in an authentic but sometimes surprising way.

Not to be missed.