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Helen Mirren ‘unbelievably excited’ to help launch RSC’s Shakespeare curriculum

The curriculum is a teaching and learning platform that is free for all state and Send schools.

Evening Standard

‘I really enjoyed it’: new RSC curriculum brings Shakespeare’s works to life in UK classrooms

Starting with Macbeth, online platform using rehearsal-based teaching methods aims to transform study of the Bard

The Guardian - UK

James McAvoy Recalls The Moment He Had With Patrick Stewart And Ian McKellen On X-Men: Days Of Future Past That Showed Him They’re ‘A Different Kind Of Actor’

I'd have been impressed too.

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John Woodvine obituary

Actor who played senior police officers on TV and delighted critics with his Falstaff for the English Shakespeare Company

The Guardian - UK

Marion Cotillard at 50: the actor’s 20 best films – ranked!

We rate her most impressive performances, from Lady Macbeth to Edith Piaf to a Batman baddie

The Guardian - UK

David Ellis reviews The Macbeth: Something wickedly good this way comes

This is somewhere that feels real, says David Ellis — no play-acting, no plot to keep up with

Evening Standard

Will Crutchfield's Teatro Nuovo revives Verdi's 'Macbeth' with period instruments

Verdi can be played on original instruments, too

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Out, damned shot! Macbeth becomes a cutthroat netball musical at Edinburgh fringe

Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence combines comedy, songs and athleticism as a young netball player reckons with her own ambitions against an electro-pop score

The Guardian - UK

Shakespeare in war: bard’s ‘existential’ theatre takes hold in Ukraine

‘There is a big need for theatre to work with existential problems,’ says translator, as Shakespeare productions boom across Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Pupils at King’s former school perform Shakespeare at home where he stayed

Local people enjoyed free performances of The Tempest.

Evening Standard

As one of Shakespeare’s least performed plays, Coriolanus is startlingly relevant under Trump 2.0

Coriolanus is one of Shakespeare’s least performed plays; perhaps because the hero is so pugnacious and classist, impressive in his strident vehemence, but lacking the vulnerability of a Macbeth or Othello.

The Conversation

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

Sam Heughan to play Macbeth in Royal Shakespeare Company debut

Outlander star Sam Heughan is to play Macbeth in his debut with the Royal Shakespeare Company

The National (Scotland)

50 Historical Garments That Would Break The Internet If Worn Today

A fitting trip down the runway of time!

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Evening Standard

Outlander’s Sam Heughan to play Macbeth in Royal Shakespeare Company debut

The British theatre company has announced a new raft of programming.

The Guardian - UK

Violent and lewd! Not Grand Theft Auto, Shakespeare’s Macbeth

If Shakespeare were around today, he’d be making open-world shooters with the same depth and diversion as his plays

The Guardian - UK

‘Shakespeare would be writing for games today’: Cannes’ first video game Lili is a retelling of Macbeth

Translocating the Scottish play to Iran with help from the RSC, iNK Stories’ version focuses on a Lady Macbeth contending with an oppressive surveillance state

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The Conversation

Ambition is not a dirty word: female politicians and the ‘Lady Macbeth bias’

When the new parliament convenes after the recent election, it will feature a rarity in Australian politics. Women will lead two significant political parties at the same time: the Liberal Party’s Sussan Ley and the Greens’ Larissa Waters.

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Hollywood star Jamie Lee Curtis 'loves her life'

Jamie Lee Curtis has revealed that she loves working in the film industry.

The Guardian - UK

Macbeth review – something wicked this way whizzes as dynamic duo play all the roles

There is one 24-carat scene after another as a cast of two switch from bloodthirsty to comedic without toil or trouble

The Guardian - UK

Chelsea 1-0 Everton: Premier League – as it happened

Chelsea boosted their hopes of a Champions League spot as Nicolas Jackson ended his goal-drought with a first-half winner to sink Everton

Evening Standard

Costumes from Hollywood adaptation to feature in Macbeth exhibition

Artefacts and painting will also form the display at Perth Museum.

The Independent UK

Ewan McGregor, Elizabeth Debicki and Kate Fleetwood: ‘There’s slight snobbery about film actors doing a play’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: The garlanded trio are taking on marital and sexual politics in a radical modern update of Ibsen’s ‘The Master Builder’. They take on the hot potato of star power, annoying theatregoers and ‘why people call us luvvies’ with Annabel Nugent

The Guardian - UK

Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk album review – controversial opera’s drama is dulled

The impact of Shostakovich’s savagely ironic and historically significant composition is neutered in a disappointing recording taken from live performance

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