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The week in theatre: The Tempest; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; You Me Bum Bum Train – review

Sigourney Weaver’s Prospero is all at sea in Jamie Lloyd’s overblown West End Shakespeare; War and Peace the musical really works; and the immersive theatre sensation is back in town

The Guardian - UK

The Tempest at Theatre Royal Drury Lane review: Sigourney Weaver in the West End is a thrill but the show fails to spark

3/5 Jamie Lloyd’s production has an incantatory, dream-like quality but instead of lightning in a bottle it’s a damp squib

Evening Standard

The Tempest review – Sigourney weaves weird magic in West End debut

Inspired by the famous filmography of its Prospero, Jamie Lloyd’s production is audaciously odd – a sci-fi Shakespeare, or gestural Greek theatre in outer space

The Guardian - UK

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Gavin and Stacey star ‘suffers head injury during West End performance of The Tempest'

The actor, who is currently playing Prospero at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, was reportedly injured about ten minutes into Tuesday evening's performance

Evening Standard

Sigourney Weaver ‘hates watching scary films’ and tries to avoid seeing them

Weaver was speaking ahead of her West End debut as Prospero in the William Shakespeare play The Tempest.

Evening Standard

Short film made about controversial peafowl population of Narrabundah

The film was made by a Narrabundah local.

The Canberra Times

Sharpe creator Bernard Cornwell apologises to fans for no new novel in 2024

Author says in Facebook post that he’s had ‘year from hell’

The Guardian - UK

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How do you read a poem? Embrace the sound, the strangeness and the ambiguity

A word is dead When it is said, Some say, I say it just Begins to live That day. – Emily Dickinson If someone asked you how you felt and you said you had “a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling was the light of setting…

The Conversation

Sigourney Weaver, Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell to star in stellar new Shakespeare season in the West End

The Jamie Lloyd Company announces thrilling season of Shakespeare at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane with a roster of stars

Evening Standard

Ralph Heimans on painting the Queen, Kevin Rudd, Judi Dench and more

See the exhibition at Canberra's National Portrait Gallery.

The Canberra Times

'Not what you might expect': Rough magic on Christmas Island

The new play will debut at The Street Theatre on November 10.

The Canberra Times

Ian McKellen tells our Theatre Podcast that responses to his ‘gay love story’ Frank & Percy are ‘heartening’

The special episode of the podcast included discussion of audience behaviour, freedom of speech and their new play which opens in London tonight

Evening Standard

Rep. Raskin Likens Political Climate To Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’

Raskin draws parallels between current tumultuous landscape and Shakespearean play, emphasizing role of technology.

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Man arrested after hammer attack on Eric Gill statue at BBC’s Broadcasting House

Man in Spider-Man mask scaled London headquarters in apparent protest against paedophile sculptor

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The Guardian - UK

Eric Gill was evil. His sculpture at BBC headquarters isn’t

The BBC is right to restore the defaced statue that was created by an artist who sexually abused his daughters. Instead of blaming a piece of inert stone, we should be trying to change the real world

The Guardian - UK

LPO/Adès review – composer’s finest stage work sea-changes into something rich not strange

Thomas Adès’ Tempest symphony proved a shapely and gorgeous précis of his 2004 opera in a concert conducted by the composer himself

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: The Tempest; Linck & Mülhahn; The Lehman Trilogy – review

Alex Kingston’s fine Prospero weathers an RSC concept storm; the 21st century erupts into a tale of 18th century gender subversion; and illusion captivates in a revival of Sam Mendes’s banking saga

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Sydney Theatre Company’s butchery of The Tempest reveals how weak our commitment to difficult art has become

The STC has counterfeited Shakespeare to serve progressive ideology. In the process, it has created a self-serving apology for colonialism.

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We've been editing Shakespeare's plays for 400 years – but does a new Australian production of The Tempest idealise the Bard?

Review: The Tempest, directed by Kip Williams, Sydney Theatre Company.

The Guardian - AU

The Tempest review – Shakespeare gets a radical edit from Sydney Theatre Company

Richard Roxburgh as Prospero and Guy Simon as Caliban are outstanding in Kip Williams’ latest production, which takes a revolutionary approach to the script

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m not saying Shakespeare is an anti-black racist. But …’ – the festival tackling an incendiary issue

They have suffered vicious abuse and ugly trolling, but the team behind the Globe’s Shakespeare and Race festival tell our writer why their work feels more urgent than ever

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Closer, The Tempest, The Darkest Part of the Night – review

Patrick Marber’s four-way passion play still adds up; Sean Holmes takes enjoyable liberties with his party island Tempest; and the heartfelt vies with the spelled out in Zodwa Nyoni’s new work

Evening Standard

The Tempest at Shakespeare’s Globe review: Some rough edges but a sunny delight

Even Shakespeare is not immune to the Love Island aesthetic

The Guardian - UK

The Tempest review – the bard in budgie smugglers

Sean Holmes’s gleefully comic take is a riot of holiday colour and fun, featuring luminous lilos, stag do bantz and a playful Prospero in eyewateringly tight trunks

The Guardian - UK

Patrick Stewart: ‘I’d go straight home and drink until I passed out’

As he beams aboard another Star Trek adventure, the 81-year-old actor talks about playing Picard as an intergalactic Prospero, hitting the bottle during an exhausting Macbeth – and reaching page 310 of his memoir

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