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The Crown star to become first woman to play Richard II in RSC production

The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Australian actress is best known for playing Diana, Princess of Wales in The Crown

The Independent UK · Oct 1

Elizabeth Debicki to play Richard II in Royal Shakespeare Company show

The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Australian actress is best known for playing Diana, Princess of Wales in The Crown.

Evening Standard · Oct 1

William Shakespeare, King of Fanfiction, Would Have Loved ‘Hamnet’

Man basically invented fanfic!

The Mary Sue · Jan 12

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Inflexible autocrat, unchecked power – Coriolanus is ‘never not timely’. So why is this Shakespeare play so rarely staged?

The bruising exploration of politics, power and civic identity plays out in front of an audience split into two sides for Bell Shakespeare’s take

The Guardian - AU · Jun 20, 2025

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20 Questions About Shakespeare That Will Really Challenge Your Literature Knowledge

This is not your typical Shakespeare trivia. Get ready to struggle to remember Shakespeare’s plays that did not get as much screen (or stage) time as Romeo & Juliet, Othello, or Macbeth have gotten. You might know a lot of things about the popular plays of Shakespeare which are also…

Bored Panda · Dec 9, 2024

The week in theatre: Waiting for Godot; Coriolanus; A Face in the Crowd – review

Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati add star power to James Macdonald’s thoughtful Beckett; David Oyelowo’s Coriolanus is dwarfed by epic staging; and an Elvis Costello-scored musical has too few high notes

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2024

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Lisa Nandy’s conference speech was a love song to the arts, performed with hands in empty pockets

With almost no practical plans for bringing UK culture back to strength after 14 years of ‘violent indifference’, the culture secretary repeated the ‘we love you but there’s no money’ mantra

The Guardian - UK · Sep 26, 2024

‘Our Romeo even impressed the school bullies’: stars of stage on the power of drama in schools

Being taught drama can transform your life. Actor David Oyelowo, writer James Graham, set designer Es Devlin and more recall their own awakenings – and their inspirational, unforgettable teachers

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2024

Coriolanus at the National Theatre review: a scorching stage return from David Oyelowo

This tightly focused, ferocious staging feels hugely timely and is rich in texture and detail

Evening Standard · Sep 25, 2024

On my radar: Zadie Smith’s cultural highlights

The writer on Netflix’s brilliant plague tragicomedy, the best British debut novel she’s read in a while, and her deep love of singer Chappell Roan

The Guardian - UK · Aug 17, 2024

'Bloody-hunting slaughtermen', sieges and 'lechery': what does Shakespeare tell us of war?

Only two days separate Anzac Day and Shakespeare’s (presumed) birthday and actual death-day. This proximity is coincidental. But amid a war in Ukraine, being reported in horrifyingly graphic detail from the point of view of the victims, and given Shakespeare is the world’s most-quoted, most-performed and most studied writer, it…

The Conversation · Apr 25, 2022

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