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The Lost King review: Discovery of Richard III’s skeleton is farcically replayed in Frears and Coogan’s drama

Why does the comedy drama think it can undo one form of malevolent villainisation by creating enemies of its own?

The Independent UK

Steve Coogan ‘not a monarchist’ despite recent royal-related projects

The actor’s upcoming film, The Lost King, tells a fictionalised version of King Richard III’s remains beneath a Leicester car park in 2012.

The Independent UK

Steve Coogan sets his sights on the life of a fugitive king

Inspired by a book by Princess Diana’s brother, the actor is researching flight of Charles II from Oliver Cromwell’s troops

The Guardian - UK

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Edinburgh woman who discovered Richard III in a car park inspires new Steve Coogan movie

The comedian's new film tells the incredible story of amateur historian Philippa Langley (played by Sally Hawkins) who led the team that found The Lost King

Edinburgh Live

The Lost King review – Frears and Coogan’s Richard III excavation story rewrites its own history

Toronto film festival: Sally Hawkins is amiable enough as the amateur historian who locates the long-dead monarch – but the uneven script digs its own grave

The Guardian - UK

The Lost King movie review: Sally Hawkins is Oscar-worthy in crowd-pleasing Ricardian tale

With ghostly appearances and quiet subversion, this drama is bound to create more drama

Evening Standard

So Richard III was a good guy? Really? The Lost King: Imagining Richard III – review

Its standout exhibit is Paul Delaroche’s painting of the two princes the monarch jailed awaiting death. Why does this vogue-ishly pro-Richard show, a tie-in with the Steve Coogan film, place a question mark over it?

The Guardian - UK

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The Lost King at the Wallace Collection review: championing a curious part of this exquisite collection

Timed to coincide with the film of the same name, this small but fascinating display leads you into a treasure trove

Evening Standard

Unfinish’d sympathy: can literature get over reading disability morally?

The ‘crookednesse’ of Richard III’s back was presented by Shakespeare as an expression of his villainy while Quasismodo embodied saintly unworldliness. Are we ready to see disability without symbolism?

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh locations spotted in trailer for new British blockbuster The Lost King

Filming began back in April for the movie, with cast and crew members spotted around the capital in areas such as Roxburgh Street in the Old Town and Bruntsfield Links.

Edinburgh Live

The best exhibitions to see in London in autumn 2022, from Lucian Freud to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

How to get your art fix in the capital

Evening Standard

Richard III: The RSC creates history with groundbreaking production

Arthur Hughes becomes the first disabled actor ever to perform the lead role as the wicked royal 'crookback' at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre

Daily Mirror

Golden days and the autumn of life

Brief letters: Protecting nature | Losing trust in the BBC | Welsh welcome | No hunch about Richard III

The Guardian - UK

Queen's two birthdays explained - and why Prince Charles might only have one

The Prince of Wales may get to enjoy the same tradition that his mother did thanks to a very British rule which was introduced to give the monarch two birthdays

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The Guardian - UK

Royal row erupts over Steve Coogan film about Richard III

Archaeologists fear they are ‘villains of the piece’ in movie, co-written by Coogan and directed by Stephen Frears, about search for British monarch

The Guardian - UK

‘I had goosebumps!’ – the finder of Richard III’s remains in a car park is celebrated in a Steve Coogan film

As the astonishing story of the king’s bones being discovered in Leicester hits the screen, we meet the sleuth whose extraordinary tenacity – despite chronic illness – located the monarch

The Guardian - UK

Boris the Third review – the greased-piglet antics of a schoolboy PM

Adam Meggido’s play finds the teenage Johnson starring in Shakespeare’s tragedy and gives a taste of his future leadership

The National (Scotland)

Exit Boris, stage right: The Fringe show relevant now more than ever

IMAGINE the scene: a theatre at Eton College, an expectant audience awaits a production of Shakespeare’s Richard III, and, playing the titular,…

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Prince Charles could be known as King George to avoid bad luck

The Prince of Wales could choose to rule under a different name - and may opt to do so thanks to the bad luck associated with the name Charles

Nottingham Post

Family-friendly days out within two hours of Nottingham

From zoos and theme parks, to parks and museums, there's oodles of places to visit for a fun day out all the family can enjoy

The Guardian - UK

Boris the Third: new play tells story of clown who became king

Adam Meggido’s comedy considers the PM’s blustering school performance as Richard III, drawing potent parallels to his current political position

The Guardian - UK

A walk through historic York to a great local pub: the Phoenix Inn

Rich in medieval and Roman history, this walk around the city walls ends up at a good old local

The Guardian - UK

Stars of summer: Florence Shaw, Claire Rushbrook, Arthur Hughes and Patricia Allison

Some of the actors and musicians in the summer’s most exciting new shows, from Grace Jones’s Meltdown to a radical Richard III, give us a taste of what to expect

The Guardian - UK

Sad! Is Donald Trump just too boring for a grand Shakespearean makeover?

Bertie Carvel is brilliant in The 47th, Mike Bartlett’s ingenious play about the former US president, but the real parallel is not with the Bard’s kings but his hollow braggarts

The Guardian - UK

‘In France, I’d be a sex symbol’: Eddie Marsan on looks, lucky breaks and playing angry men

Over a bowl of chips in a local café, actor Eddie Marsan revels in his East End culture, and the challenges of finding a human side to aggressive male characters

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