Good humoured, enlightening tutorial

By Heart

Written and performed by Tiago Rodrigues

Smock Alley Theatre

Run concluded

Rating:****

By Heart is not so much a theatre show as an English tutorial. Tiago Rodrigues, a Portuguese actor and playwright, invites ten volunteers on stage and asks them to memorise one of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets (beginning ‘When to the sessions of sweet silent thought’). In between recitals he tells us the story of his grandmother Candida, a voracious ...