All Stories
Apr 16, 2007
Present History: Keegan’s A Man for All Seasons
This review was written by new DCist contributor, Christopher Klimek Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons, newly revived at the Keegan Theatre, is probably forever doomed to be stuck in the present. First staged in 1960, and dramatizing events that occurred more than four centuries earlier — Thomas More’s refusal-by-silence to sanction King Henry VIII’s divorce — the play seems contemporary, as martyr stories inevitably will. After all, who was Thomas More, if…