The voltage is high, the play convincingly acted.
But this play, intelligent, well-written and admirably acted though it is, feels like an opportunity lost.
The play was a favourite of Friedrich Schiller and much acted in Germany.
Neither the play nor the protagonist acts as a self-advertisement.
A play which he wrote, directed, produced and acted in.
The play acting, those accents, the changes of mood - all is intentional I think.
There are all the categories: plays, films, acting, directing, prose, poetry and politics.
The play, widely thought to be an unfinished draft, was probably never acted during Shakespeare's time.
Maurice Maeterlinck's play, which forms the basis of the libretto, acts similarly.