(Seen at Lincoln Center yesterday) and I feel more than a bit the picket-line-breaker, though there wasn't a physical picket line I crossed, for doing so. (There's a stagehands strike in NY City, but not one that affected Lincoln Center or the Manhattan Theater Club.) Anyhow, a couple of gripes- articulation was catch-as-catch-can sometimes and language also sometimes rushed through, and when Shakespeare's English is as close to being a second language as it is, this impedes understanding of a convoluted plot!
However...
and speaking of someone whose whole knowledge of this particular play, was that I read about a composer's incidental music for it (see http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2003/May03/Zemlinsky_Beaumont.htm, toward the end of that review) in a magazine some years back (and that Fanfare-magazine review is online but subscription access only, it seems.)
I think the whole got across, the staging, acting (otherwise) and even for once the music were wonderful, a most enjoyable evening with a new-to-me Shakespeare play.
