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All's Well That Ends Well review: All's well in the Globe's delightful web of deceit, writes PATRICK MARMION
PATRICK MARMION: All's Well is the sort of Shakespeare that's apt to cause moral panic among today's puritans.
Rather than living happily ever after, Bertram (Kit Young) slopes off to war to avoid her... prompting her retaliation (sexual entrapment, involving a nun’s habit and a lick of lipstick). Helped by the light-touch gravitas of Siobhan Redmond as Bertram’s mother, Shakespeare’s comedy is therefore revealed as a play of ingenious strategising that toys with moral dilemmas and is meant to delight, not disturb. Whatever anyone else might prefer to call it, this is another pleasantly innocuous example, about a couple of young men cobbling together a musical for a New York festival — and it won a coveted Tony Award nomination on Broadway in 2008.
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