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TV tonight: Our highlights for Monday, June 12

Best Interests is just one of the gems on TV tonight.

WhatToWatch · Jun 11, 2023

‘The signs are too stark to ignore’: seven reasons the NHS is in crisis

As the NHS approaches its 75th anniversary, writers close to it reflect on the numbers behind its problems, and what it will take to heal the wounds

The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2023

‘A mum shouldn’t have to go to her child’s funeral’: Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen on making moving TV

The stars’s beautiful, haunting show follows a mother who sues the NHS to stop her child from dying. They open up about parental terror, inequality and dad dancing

The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2023

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We interrupt this broadcaster: why did Winston Churchill try to seize the BBC?

In 1926, with the General Strike looming and the right warning of a Bolshevik revolution, the BBC found itself in a dreadful dilemma. Writer Jack Thorne on why he turned this into ‘a love letter to people in authority’

The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2023

Best Interests: plot, cast, and everything we know about Jack Thorne's new drama

Best Interests tells the story of a family being driven apart by a choice no parent would ever want to make.

WhatToWatch · May 25, 2023

The Motive and the Cue review: a ‘heartfelt plea’ for the ‘power of theatre’

“There’s been no shortage of stage portrayals of real life VIPs in the past couple of years,” said Clive Davis in The Times. Jack Thorne’s “thoughtful, often wickedly droll” new play, about the relationship between Richard Burton and John Gielgud during rehearsals for a 1964 production of Hamlet on Broadway,…

The Week · May 11, 2023

The week in theatre: The Motive and the Cue; A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction; Jules et Jim; Supernova – review

Sam Mendes reignites Gielgud and Burton’s Broadway Hamlet; a climate crisis play is powered by bikes (and eco-shaming); Timberlake Wertenbaker has fun with Jules et Jim; and Rhiannon Neads hits escape velocity

The Guardian - UK · May 7, 2023

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Johnny Flynn: ‘rehearsal spaces can turn toxic’

The star of hot new Sam Mendes play The Motive and the Cue talks fame, fraught rehearsals and theatre’s big culture shift. By Alexandra Jones

Evening Standard · May 3, 2023

The Motive and the Cue review: Burton/Gielgud luvvie-off will give you goosebumps

Mark Gatiss is superb as Sir John Gielgud in Jack Thorne’s affecting play about Hamlet rehearsals with Richard Burton

The Independent UK · May 3, 2023

The Motive and the Cue review – Gielgud and Burton battle it out

Mark Gatiss and Johnny Flynn star in Jack Thorne’s play about the prickly pair’s 1960s Broadway production of Hamlet

The Guardian - UK · May 3, 2023

The Motive and the Cue, National Theatre review: Sam Mendes’s elegant production is a love letter to theatre

In this look at Richard Burton and Sir John Gielgud’s staging of Hamlet on Broadway, the play is not the thing

Evening Standard · May 3, 2023

Jack Thorne on his new play about Richard Burton and John Gielgud’s Hamlet: “Rehearsals can be brutal”

Sam Mendes was inspired to commission The Motive and the Cue after finding a book on the tumultous 1964 staging of Hamlet on Broadway - now it’s at the National Theatre

Evening Standard · Apr 27, 2023

Warner Bros. Announces A New Harry Potter Series Based On The Books. Of Course, Fans Have Thoughts

According to a new report, WB Discovery is actively making a new television adaptation of Harry Potter, and fans are torn.

Cinemablend · Apr 4, 2023

TV-to-stage plays like Stranger Things are turning theatre upside down. They could make it or break it

Adaptations of existing media get new fans in the building, but they also rob new plays of space, says Kate Wyver, xyz

The Guardian - UK · Mar 30, 2023

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The Guardian - UK · Mar 23, 2023

Musicals are having an exceptional moment – but classic plays are vanishing from UK stages

There are invigorating versions of Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma! and Cabaret in London – and some enticing new dramas coming up – yet theatre risks being cut off from its past

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2023

Stranger Things due in West End as stage spinoff of Netflix hit announced

Based on an original story by the Duffer Brothers, Kate Trefry and Jack Thorne, Stranger Things: The First Shadow promises ‘a journey into the past’

The Guardian - UK · Dec 18, 2022

His Dark Materials series three review – Ruth Wilson is as seductive as Satan

The BBC’s singular adaptation of Philip Pullman’s trilogy concludes with astonishing CGI and fantastic performances – particularly the deliciously evil Wilson

The Guardian - UK · Nov 22, 2022

Johnny Flynn and Mark Gatiss to play Richard Burton and John Gielgud in new play

Written by Jack Thorne and directed by Sam Mendes, The Motive and the Cue is about the famous 1964 production of Hamlet and will open at the National Theatre

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The Guardian - AU · Nov 19, 2022

A Christmas Carol review – David Wenham is a superb Scrooge for the ages

Comedy Theatre, MelbourneThis adaptation from London’s Old Vic is a night of pure theatrical warmth, with a performance of incredible clarity and generosity at its centre

The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2022

‘It has added political resonance this year’: why Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol still strikes a chord

Audiences can choose from a glut of Ebenezers this festive season, with the infamous miser a more pointed character than ever in these hard times

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2022

Let the Right One In review – bittersweet production brings out the terrors of adolescence

There are some scares, but Jack Thorne’s adaptation of the Swedish vampire novel focuses more on the compelling bond between two troubled teens

The Guardian - US · Oct 28, 2022

Enola Holmes 2 review – Netflix’s spirited mystery sequel for teens

Millie Bobby Brown returns as Sherlock’s plucky sister in a charming, if mostly forgettable, follow-up to the 2020 hit

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2022

The Solid Life of Sugar Water review – Jack Thorne’s superb drama of love and loss

Brilliantly acted, designed and directed, Thorne’s tender but brutally powerful portrait of a couple gets an overdue revival

Evening Standard · Oct 20, 2022

The Solid Life of Sugar Water at Orange Tree Theatre: inclusive and succinctly powerful

Writer Jack Thorne never ceases to stimulate and entertain

The Guardian - US · Sep 9, 2022

The Swimmers review – inspiring Olympian refugee story told in broad strokes

My Brother the Devil director Sally El Hosaini tells the story of Yusra Mardini in a Netflix film that feels closer to a Disney sports movie

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