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Seriously: book your tickets now. Yes, Ivo van Hove's legendary mash up of Shakespeare's Roman tragedies – 'Coriolanus', 'Julius Caesar' and 'Antony and Cleopatra' – is six hours long, and doesn't have an interval in the conventional sense. But it is simply one the greatest theatre productions ever staged, less a gruelling feat of endurance than a great communal endeavour, in which the audience is invited to wander up onto the stage, sit down, buy drinks and snacks during the frequent semi-pauses and generally be thrust into the heart of things. It was last seen at the Barbican in 2009 and we should all be jolly grateful that Van Hove has been persuaded to dust it off as part of his theatre company Toneelgroep Amsterdam's 2017 Barbican takeover. There are three performances only, and it's too much to hope for that we'll ever see it again. Book, book, book.
Performed in Dutch with English subtitles.