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The Edinburgh fringe is just another choking canary in the toxic national mine

But if I’m going to watch the Britain I loved expire slowly, I’d rather do it from the top of the Royal Mile in August

The Guardian - UK

Falkland Sound review – the RSC’s history play tells the islanders’ story

Brad Birch’s drama aims to explain how it felt to be the centre of the world’s attention in the war but being narrated at becomes tiring

The Guardian - UK

Sir Michael Boyd obituary

Acclaimed artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company who oversaw a transformation of its fortunes

The Guardian - UK

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Sir Michael Boyd brought visionary gleam to Shakespeare and Stratford

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s former artistic director was a great theatrical leader whose legacy includes proving the history cycle is at the centre of our national story

The Guardian - UK

Sir Michael Boyd, former artistic director of the RSC, dies aged 68

The Royal Shakespeare Company says the acclaimed theatre director’s tenure from 2003 to 2012 was ‘inspiring and influential’

The Guardian - UK

Former RSC artistic director Sir Michael Boyd dies aged 68

Sir Michael was artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company between 2002 and 2012.

The Independent UK

Janet Dale obituary

Other lives: Actor whose long career spanned the RSC, popular TV soaps and series, and several films

The Guardian - UK

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Bard jokes: how music-hall greats inspired Stewart Lee to meddle with Macbeth

The stand-up comedian describes how he gave a modern twist to the Porter’s dark jokes in a new RSC production directed by Wils Wilson

The Guardian - UK

As You Like It: a ‘good-natured comedic romp’

For his RSC debut, Omar Elerian has presented “As You Like It” conventionally, as a “good-natured comedic romp packed with laughter”, said Diane Parkes on What’s on Stage. There is a twist, however: all of the main parts are played by actors in their 60s, 70s and 80s – which guarantees exemplary verse-speaking.

The Week

Douglas Heap obituary

Other lives: Theatrical designer who created sets for theatres in the West End and on Broadway

The Guardian - UK

RSC to launch ‘Chalo Delhi’ over ‘injustice being meted out to Rayalaseema’

Rayalaseema Steering Committee (RSC) convener Byreddy Rajasekhar Reddy said that though the State was helmed by many Chief Ministers from the Rayalaseema region since independence, none helped the region develop, and the indiscrimination towards it is more evident under the rule of Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy.

The Hindu

TV tonight: Wimbledon coverage looks a little bit different this year

Clare Balding takes over from Sue Barker at the tennis tournament. Plus: the RSC present All’s Well That Ends Well. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: As You Like It; Tambo & Bones; Stumped – review

Seasoned actors turn Shakespeare’s romcom on its head in an enchanted RSC production; US race relations meet Waiting for Godot; and at the crease with Beckett and Pinter

The Guardian - UK

Thornhill scientist honoured with a top prize

Dr Stephen Wallace, who now lives in Edinburgh, has been named winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Norman Heatley Award in recognition of brilliance in research and innovation.

Daily Record

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Matthew Yglesias: It’s not Trump’s party so much as Jason Smith’s

If you want to know how Donald Trump would govern if he wins in 2024 — or Ron DeSantis or for that matter Will Hurd — tune out the din of the Republican presidential campaign and cast your gaze toward the House of Representatives. What you will see is that…

Manchester Evening News

The RSC’s Julius Caesar at The Lowry is an office party with terrible consequences... remind you of anything?

Atri Banerjee's production arrives at The Lowry

Salon

GOP budget would destroy Social Security

The proposed budget calls for tax cuts for the uber-rich and an increase in the Social Security retirement age

Bangkok Post

Oscar-winning UK actress turned MP Glenda Jackson dies at 87: agent

LONDON - British actress Glenda Jackson, the two-time Oscar-winning actress who went on to become an MP, died on Thursday at the age of 87, prompting tributes from the worlds of entertainment and politics.

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The Guardian - UK

Glenda Jackson obituary

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

Evening Standard

Black Mirror’s Paapa Essiedu: “Pressure? It doesn’t affect me”

He’s played a hate-filled Hamlet and a traumatised Grindr addict to great acclaim, but the pride of Walthamstow, Paapa Essiedu, tells Jimi Famurewa why Black Mirror is his best job yet

Tribune News Service

Conservatives’ budget plan renews battle over seniors’ benefits

WASHINGTON — The largest bloc of House conservatives offered up a fiscal blueprint Wednesday that promises to balance the federal budget in seven years, make GOP tax cuts permanent and slash domestic spending.

Roll Call

Conservatives' budget plan renews battle over seniors' benefits - Roll Call

The plan would gradually raise the age at which future retirees can start claiming full Social Security benefits from 67 to 69.

The Guardian - UK

Hamilton star Reuben Joseph to play Macbeth for the RSC

The West End actor says the Shakespearean role has ‘the disastrous consequences of ambition’ in common with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical

The Independent UK

Interim RSC boss proud to have made company inclusive of ‘voices we represent’

Erica Whyman said she cared ‘very passionately’ about having promoted the RSC as a truly national theatre company.

Evening Standard

Cush Jumbo joins David Tennant in the Donmar Warehouse’s Macbeth in autumn 2023

Tennant and Jumbo previously acted together in Channel 4’s Deadwater Fell

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