The Shaw Festivval’s Henry V: Does Shakespeare deserve such treatment?
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ont. — Nearly a century ago, Winnie-the-Pooh creator A.A. Milne wrote a now-forgotten one-act play called The Man In The Bowler Hat. It dealt with the disruption of a conventional middle-class household by a sequence of melodramatic events that in performance could be done for real or, more commonly, take on the texture of a Monty Python spoof. …