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Alison Steadman: ‘We filmed the sex scene in the New Forest, so it was quite prickly’

The actor on working with Dennis Potter, channelling real life in Abigail’s Party and a groundbreaking lesbian snog

The Guardian - UK · Mar 30, 2023

The week in theatre: five stars for Guys & Dolls, plus Marjorie Prime and The Tragedy of Macbeth – review

The audience is swept along with the action in Nicholas Hytner’s thrillingly immersive new Guys and Dolls; Nancy Carroll and Anne Reid surf memory and identity; and Shakespeare’s witches multitask

The Guardian - UK · Mar 19, 2023

Inside Shakespeare castle where tragic woman 'without hands' haunts the passages

Cawdor Castle in Scotland is well known for its connection to the Shakespeare play Macbeth... but for paranormal enthusiasts, it is also haunted by a tragic woman without hands

Daily Mirror · Mar 15, 2023

Ambition, corruption and guerilla gardening: Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood is a horror story for our time

Almost every review to date mentions the brutal argument that closes the first section of Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood. In a novel filled with incident – disasters, chases, one very bad acid trip, general maleficence – it is telling that this scene lingers.

The Conversation · Mar 1, 2023

My worst moment: Hope Davis and the enormous sweaty balls of sweater fuzz stuck to her underarms during an audition

There’s something Shakespearean about the character Hope Davis plays on the Showtime drama “Your Honor.” As the wife of a crime boss, “she’s a Lady Macbeth and she’s very frustrated with how her husband is executing things, so she gets her hands dirty,” said Davis. “It’s really delicious to play…

Chicago Tribune · Feb 24, 2023

A love of Shakespeare is one reason to accept an honour. What’s everyone else’s excuse?

Actors aside, only the foolhardy can now say yes to a gong in the debased era of Liz Truss and Boris Johnson

The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2023

Astonishing adaptation of Macbeth reimagines Shakespeare's 'Scottish play'

ZINNIE Harris is one of Scotland’s most accomplished playwrights.

The National (Scotland) · Feb 19, 2023

Eleanor Catton: ‘I felt so much doubt after winning the Booker’

In 2013, at 28, Eleanor Catton became the youngest ever Booker winner with The Luminaries. She talks about adapting the novel for screen, being shut out of her native New Zealand and why it has taken 10 years to write a follow-up

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2023

'Reade him, therefore; and againe, and againe'. It's the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio, a monumental project put together by his friends

Shakespeare’s First Folio – more accurately known as Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, Tragedies – was published 400 years ago this November.

The Conversation · Feb 14, 2023

You need to play the best time-loop game on Steam ASAP

A time-loop retelling of one of Shakespeare's most famous plays, this indie game is a must-play adventure.

Inverse · Feb 2, 2023