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Robert Trussell

Review | Roger Rees' one-man show

In the space of 90 minutes Saturday night, Roger Rees took an enthusiastic audience at the Folly Theater through a few hundred years of great literature and pungent theater history in his splendid one-man show, “What You Will.” Rees, a Welsh-born veteran stage and screen actor, would be the ideal guy to convince high-school kids that Shakespeare is anything but boring. His performances of material from “Hamlet,” “Romeo and Juliet” and “Henry V,” among others, were often riveting. But his anecdotes, collected from wildly disparate sources, really drove the show.