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King Lear is an absolute masterpiece – as told by Akira Kurosawa rather than Shakespeare

The tragedy’s mythic quality appeals to adapters the world over but the Japanese film-maker’s Ran, now rereleased, manages to solve the play’s problems

The Guardian - UK · Jul 8, 2025

Clive Revill obituary

Superb stage actor who lent power to British TV productions of the 1970s and made a string of enjoyable movies

The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2025

Lee Montague obituary

Actor who toured with Laurence Olivier and Peter Brook, starred on Broadway and had a long career in film and TV

The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2025

Geoff Hinsliff obituary

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

The Guardian - UK · Sep 20, 2024

Pip Simmons obituary

Experimental British theatre director whose confrontational style often featured loud rock music, nudity, blasphemy and free dance

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2024

Playwright Alexander Zeldin: ‘Lots of people can make a living being an artist in France. In the UK, that’s not the case’

The Paris-based British playwright, back in the UK with The Confessions, inspired by conversations with his mother, talks about the secrets she revealed

The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2023

Is King Lear a mountain or molehill? How to play the tragic monarch and ‘stupid old fart’

Paul Scofield, Ian McKellen and Glenda Jackson have all redefined Shakespeare’s unpredictable ruler – a role in which actors usually succeed

The Guardian - UK · Sep 26, 2023

Letter: Jane Birkin obituary

Peter Rankin writes: You might say that Peter Brook is another name that could be added to Jane Birkin’s long list of eminent directors

The Guardian - UK · Jul 17, 2023

In memory of Glenda Jackson: ‘She touched something central about what it means to be alive’

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

The Guardian - UK · Jun 17, 2023

Appreciation: Glenda Jackson, formidable English talent who helped change contemporary acting’s tone

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…

Los Angeles Times · Jun 16, 2023