Theatre review: Romeo and Juliet | Antony and Cleopatra

STAR-CROSS’D lovers are the theme in this year’s Glasgow Bard In The Botanics season, blessed – for once – with radiant summer weather; but if Gordon Barr and his company have planned a celebration of the world-changing power of love, in hate-filled times, then Shakespeare’s plays often tell a subtly different story, of a warlike, male-dominated world that instinctively fears the transforming creative power of great sexual love, and seeks its destruction.