The Latest Breaking News from King Lear

Judi Dench on trigger warnings: if you’re that sensitive, avoid the theatre

Oscar-winning actor enters row about pre-performance advisories, suggesting they kill the surprise of seeing drama in your own way

The Guardian - UK · May 13, 2024

‘His body was a tool telling truths’: Julian Clary and Juliet Stevenson on one actor’s extraordinary exit

Simon Chambers’ film about his late uncle David makes for candid and compelling viewing. Along with one of David’s former pupils, and a fan of his film, he talks care, contempt and infatuation

The Guardian - UK · May 3, 2024

Much Ado About Dying review – brave, loving record of an actor uncle’s last days

Simon Chambers’ documentary is unsparing in capturing his theatrical relation’s endearing, sometimes desperate and often infuriating decline

The Guardian - UK · May 2, 2024

Acrobats, throat singing and Shakespeare: welcome to the Mongol Khan, London's wildest new theatre production

This is the first time a Mongolian play has ever been exported outside of the country

Evening Standard · Nov 12, 2023

A plague on both their houses? Politicos grapple with 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio

William Shakespeare’s works are not short of insight on the perils of power and “vaulting ambition”. Some are dramatically relevant to this era of war and ceaseless tension, from Richard III to Julius Caesar and King Lear.

Evening Standard · Nov 9, 2023

OK, Kenneth Branagh isn’t great as King Lear – but have you seen his abs?

From Daniel Radcliffe to Paul Mescal, a star name will fill theatres. And if most of the audience aren’t there for the acting, that’s not always a bad thing

The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2023

The week in theatre: King Lear; Lyonesse; Pied Piper – review

Kenneth Branagh savours Lear’s words rather too much; Kristin Scott Thomas and co are left high and dry in Cornwall; but at BAC, a beatbox Pied Piper you would follow anywhere…

The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2023

King Lear at the Wyndham’s Theatre review: Kenneth Branagh's radical, youthful Lear tugs at the soul

Though his take on 'the actor's Everest' initially fails to ignite, in the final third Branagh's performance is truly moving

Evening Standard · Nov 1, 2023

I’m Sorry, Prime Minister, I Can’t Quite Remember: Hacker and Sir Humphrey’s last hurrah

Jonathan Lynn’s new play finds the political double act in their 80s, in a suitable final chapter to a magnificent comic project

The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2023

Sir Michael Gambon obituary

Versatile actor with a magnificent presence who starred in The Singing Detective and the Harry Potter films

The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2023