Theatre Reviews updated

Found a couple of theatre reviews on my internet travels. No idea how I managed to miss them.

The Spectator by Patrick Carnegy, on Much Ado September 06

For Much Ado, director Marianne Elliott goes to the pre-Castro Cuba of the 1950s, opening the way for a feast of salsa music, song and dance. But the best music of the evening is simply that of the sparring of Beatrice and Benedick. Millson's Benedick, with his short hair and neat moustache, is every inch the bachelor cynic of the officers' mess. Beatrice's mocking admonishments are a new and unexpected challenge. With her aquiline profile, figure-hugging skirts and straight seams, Greig's barbs are so hilarious you scarcely realise how deep they have thrust. The scenes in which each of them eavesdrops on how the other is totally infatuated allow the comic genius of each actor full rein -- Millson, ill concealed in a potted palm, springing up with a manic exuberance that Basil Fawlty could scarcely have matched, Greig setting off hooter and lights of the scooter behind which she's dementedly sought to hide.

When the darkening of the play at Hero's abortive wedding precipitates Beatrice's and Benedick's declaration of their love, Greig and Millson open up a whole new layer in their relationship without abandoning anything of its playful antagonism. At a stroke, Greig and Millson have lifted the RSC's playing of the comedies on to a higher level. 
 

And one for As You Like It, from Variety in 2003 by Matt Wolf

Add in the unusually sexy Orlando of Joseph Millson, and one had an "As You Like It" with a rare and real erotic heat alongside a pulsating melancholia.