‘You are nothing but a big zero,’ says the Fool to Lear. I paraphrase, apologies Mr Shakespeare. But this is not, you understand, a version of King Lear, although that was the starting point – a period of research supported by the Royal Shakespeare Company, in which Clod Ensemble discovered that what they didn’t want […]

There aren’t many artistic directors of theatres with a capacity of 1500 seats who would commission a show for an audience of only 200. Yet that is exactly what Alistair Spalding of Sadler’s Wells has done for Clod Ensemble’s An Anatomie in Four Quarters, which although it doesn’t quite live up to its potential, nevertheless playfully […]