Theatre: Poignant and powerful as player finds solace in Shakespeare

In Acting Shakespeare

**The Everyman Theatre,** Cork

**Directed by** John Langs

**Runs in Galway, Portlaoise, Roscommon, Sligo and Thurles** until October 24

**Rating:** 3/5

**Reviewed by** Brendan Daly

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James DeVita’s epiphany arrived in a New York theatre in 1983. Watching Ian McKellen perform Acting Shakespeare, a one-man show which laced Shakespearean monologues with stories from McKellen’s life, DeVita was both exhilarated and terrified: he knew immediately that he wanted to become a ...