‘All the Devils Are Here’ Review: A One-Man Show of Shakespeare’s Villains
8 / 10
Mr. Page is a consummately skilled classical actor—one of the country’s finest, although much of his Shakespearean work has been seen outside New York—and the show, which whips by at 80 minutes, is virtually all highlights. And the speeches and dialogues, chosen with care, never blur together into a generalized portrait of malignity at work in the human heart and mind. Each character, from the quasi-comic Malvolio in “Twelfth Night” to the nihilistic Iago of “Othello,” whom Mr. Page analyzes, convincingly, as a by-the-book psychopath, comes alive before us with different shades of menace, mendacity, vengefulness or spite.