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Their latest Shakespeare production has the company's wonted urban energy and good-natured elasticity. Plus lots of laughs.

Kathleen Simmonds burns up the stage as a prodigal daughter who shakes things up on her return to the family's Irish pub after a family tragedy.

This is lively full-strength Shakespeare, a dizzying story of changing fortunes and changing sides, loyalty and betrayal, weakness and strength, war and more war, with only small and hesitant hopes for peace – and all made easy to follow and admire.