Game of Thrones: The Mad King at Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
Rating: Four out of five stars
‘Welcome to Westeros’ blinks the sign outside the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
As anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock for the past 20 years will know, this is a reference to the continent invented by George R. R. Martin as the setting for his string of bestselling fantasy novels that was turned into the blockbuster TV series Game of Thrones.
It became a global cultural phenomenon, regularly attracting more than 30 million viewers per episode.
The stage version prequel has been a decade in the
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