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Other lives: Movement specialist who taught at acting schools in London and across the world

Actor who was in productions by Franco Zeffirelli and Peter Brook and spent 10 years as Don Brennan in Coronation Street

Two people who watched the actor and Labour politician closely remember the desire to get to the truth that made her so powerful on stage, screen and in parliament

There was never anything shrinking about the confidence Glenda Jackson projected on stage and screen in her heyday. Afflicted with an uncommon common sense, her characters were defined by their sharp intelligence, independence and, yes, irritability. They were nobody’s fool, even when they wound up with the short end of…

Actor who was a fearless, ferocious presence in theatre, cinema and television, then turned to politics as a Labour MP

It ‘fetishises’ getting friends, likes and followers, she says

NHS Scotland | Peter Brook | Suprematists

The theatre director remembers his friend and mentor, a titan of the stage whose productions revolutionised the art form

As Complicité’s Simon McBurney brings Olga Tokarczuk’s feminist detective story to the stage, the pair discuss its eccentric sleuth, isolated landscape and climate alarm