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Maureen Beattie looks to the future with her take on Lear

FOR Scottish theatre doyenne Maureen Beattie, it makes perfect sense for King Lear to be played by a woman – even if it could have Shakespeare…

The National (Scotland) · Jun 21

Wedding parties, the Hand of God and Lineker – The Big One invades summer like nothing else

Forget the Olympic and the rest. People across the planet remember where they were for their biggest World Cup matches

The Guardian - UK · Jun 14

Fit for a king: Ian McKellen to play Lear at newly rebuilt Yard theatre in east London

Role marks a major return for the actor after falling off the stage in 2024 and is a coup for the forward-thinking theatre

The Guardian - UK · May 14

Tatsuya Nakadai obituary

One of the greatest actors of Japanese cinema best known for Ran, the 1985 film adaptation of King Lear

The Guardian - UK · Nov 20, 2025

‘The storm for Lear is inside him’: Crossing choppy seas to bring Shakespeare to Isles of Scilly

RSC touring troupe stage King Lear in a school hall on St Mary’s before continuing to the Isle of Wight

The Guardian - UK · Sep 17, 2025

King Lear is an absolute masterpiece – as told by Akira Kurosawa rather than Shakespeare

The tragedy’s mythic quality appeals to adapters the world over but the Japanese film-maker’s Ran, now rereleased, manages to solve the play’s problems

The Guardian - UK · Jul 8, 2025

Griff Rhys Jones returns to stage in I'm Sorry, Prime Minister

Jones is taking on the part made famous by Paul Eddington and tells us: "Politics ought to be the art of the possible but it seems to be about is the art of the impossible.”

Evening Standard · May 8, 2025

All the Shakespearean references in The White Lotus season three explained by an expert

Warning: this article contains major spoilers for the ending of White Lotus season three.

The Conversation · Apr 10, 2025

Why you should revisit the classics, even if you were turned off them at school

Throughout my school years I had an exuberant, elderly piano teacher, Miss Hazel. She was one of five daughters (like me) and, like many young women of her generation, had never married her sweetheart because he did not return from the war.

The Conversation · Mar 3, 2025

Country diary: Quieter days around the solstice

The Marches, Shropshire: After the wind shook everything up, the rains have returned and the crazy old oaks have withdrawn into themselves

The Guardian - UK · Dec 26, 2024