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Our weekend arts and culture picks, from Silo to Ed Sheeran

A guide to the new releases over the coronation weekend

The Independent UK

I relate to Hollywood star’s love affair with theatre, says Tuppence Middleton

Tuppence Middleton is joined in The Motive and the Cue by Johnny Flynn as her husband Richard Burton and Mark Gatiss as Sir John Gielgud

Evening Standard

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

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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

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

Taking the knees in Jerusalem

My mother’s contribution to perhaps the most overlooked British folk art of the past 90 years: the canvas-work church kneeler

The Guardian - UK

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

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Nolly review – Helena Bonham Carter is brilliantly camp in Russell T Davies’s impeccable drama

The actor is flamboyant, frank and funny as a Crossroads legend. It’s a joy to watch this warm, thoughtful tribute to soaps, fabulous older women – and showbiz itself

The Guardian - UK

Mark Gatiss: ‘I’m genuinely terrified that we are losing the caff for ever’

The actor and director on his fears for a British institution, the day he stopped being vegetarian and why he’s a fast eater

The Guardian - UK

Steven Moffat says friend’s true story inspired West End play The Unfriend

The Unfriend stars Reece Shearsmith and Amanda Abbington as a timid couple too polite to stop a brash American, played by Frances Barber, from inviting herself to stay

Evening Standard

The Unfriend at the Criterion Theatre review - Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat give us a riotous bit of fun

An uproarious comedy of English embarrasment

Evening Standard

Mark Gatiss: ‘Christmas is the perfect time for ghosts’

Glad tidings of comfort and joy? Not if Mark Gatiss has anything to do with it. David Barnett meets the man who haunts Christmas

The Independent UK

Helena Bonham Carter explains why her unusual new character is her 'dream role'

Helena Bonham Carter has spoken of her joy at playing Crossroads icon Noele Gordon, who was famously sacked from the soap in 1981, describing the role as a "gift"

Daily Mirror

Mark Gatiss: ‘The way the government has embraced cruelty as a badge of honour is horrible’

From The League of Gentlemen to last year’s A Christmas Carol, the writer, actor and director never seems to stop. He discusses mortality, the Tories, and the (brief) fear his career was over

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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

The Guardian - UK

The Glass Pearls by Emeric Pressburger audiobook review – inside the world of a Nazi war criminal

Mark Gatiss narrates as the softly spoken piano tuner who is plagued by nightmares about his past being found out

The Guardian - UK

Mother of God! It’s Line of Duty already: 100 years of the BBC, part 10

From Jed Mercurio’s bent copper hit to Michaela Coel’s powerful I May Destroy You and Russell T Davies’s prescient Years and Years, the BBC shows it can still be innovative and provocative

Evening Standard

Mark Gatiss: Sherlock star makes his West End directorial debut

The actor and writer is making his debut as a West End director with Unfriend, written by his Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffat, at the Criterion Theatre

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Daily Mirror

Who is BGT's The Witch? Celeb theories from Bake Off star to show's former presenter

The Witch is back in the first Britain’s Got Talent live semi-final tonight - but is there a famous face under the ugly prosthetics of the mysterious act?

Evening Standard

Londoner’s Diary: Mothers’ voices must be heard in politics, says Labour MP Stella Creasy

In today’s Diary: Stella Creasy on the lack of mothers in Parliament / Mark Gatiss on awkward dinners / Laura Haddock on Hugh Bonneville’s Downton set hazing

The Guardian - UK

The Unfriend review – manners can be the death of you in Steven Moffat’s comedy

Mark Gatiss directs Reece Shearsmith in Moffat’s cringe-tastic play that more than stands up next to the trio’s celebrated TV work

Daily Mirror

Peter Kay's best TV cameos over the years from Coronation Street to Doctor Who

Peter Kay is believed to be on the verge of announcing his long overdue comeback tour later this year, but the star has made many other appearances over the years. Here are some of his best cameos

Liverpool Echo

Epic Doctor Who mural by Paul Curtis unveiled at World Museum

15 metres wide painting by Paul Curtis depicts fearsome Doctor Who monsters invading Liverpool

The Guardian - UK

‘None of it has felt insurmountable’: Amanda Abbington on Sherlock, separation and her fiancé’s nightmare fall

After her show-stealing turn in the Steven Moffat drama, the actor is returning to comedy with his play The Unfriend. She talks about why funny women intimidate men, her daredevil partner – and coping with the accident that befell him

Daily Mirror

Britain's Got Talent's The Witch - five theories on the real identity of mysterious act

Britain's Got Talent viewers were terrified by mysterious act The Witch on Saturday, but some think a star could be masquerading as the character

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