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Shakespeare, Golden Age of Film collide on the outskirts of ‘Comedy of Errors’

Even though we get nearly the full story, “The Comedy of Errors” feels more sampled than fully done.

Chicago Sun-Times

Drag queen (and ordained minister) Bella DuBalle won't be silenced by new Tenn. law

DuBalle says the legislators behind a new law criminalizing public drag shows don't understand the art: "They think that every drag performer is doing something hypersexual or obscene."

WEKU

OPINION - Budget 2023: better, but still really quite bad

Great art achieves apotheosis in performance. Shakespeare was designed to be seen, not studied. Music to be heard, not read off a sheet. Both spark to life through actors, musicians, directors and conductors to form something more magical than the sum of their parts.

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The pretty Scottish town with a distillery named 'most picturesque' for wintry walks

While the recent cold snap has put a halt to traditional spring activities like picnics and garden visits, that shouldn't stop you from heading out and enjoying the beauty of Scotland.

Daily Record

Inside Shakespeare castle where tragic woman 'without hands' haunts the passages

Cawdor Castle in Scotland is well known for its connection to the Shakespeare play Macbeth... but for paranormal enthusiasts, it is also haunted by a tragic woman without hands

Daily Mirror

A Scottish castle linked to Shakespeare is 'haunted' by a tragic woman without hands

If you are a Shakespeare fan, you will likely be aware of the connection between Macbeth and Cawdor Castle, but you may not know that the ghost of a young woman is said to haunt its halls.

Daily Record

The stunning Scottish castle by the sea where a Shakespeare movie was filmed

You may be surprised to learn that a 1990 film based on Shakespeare's Hamlet starring Mel Gibson and Glenn Close actually shot many of its scenes in Scotland despite being set in Denmark.

Daily Record

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The full list of BBC colleagues and celebrities supporting Gary Lineker

The broadcaster is reportedly set to make an apology to the presenter

Wales Online

‘I’m no white man in a toga’: Thalissa Teixeira on having a stab at Brutus

The actor, better known as a TV cop, is portraying Julius Caesar’s assassin in a first for the RSC. She reveals why she’s been studying revolutionaries, from Mexican Zapatistas to Welsh nationalists

The Guardian - UK

The Comedy of Errors (more or less) review – funny, frenetic reimagining

Prescot is pitted against Scarborough – and women get their fair share of the limelight – in this engaging rewrite of Shakespeare’s comedy

The Guardian - UK

Vermeer’s luminous interiors gave us a new way into the inner worlds of others

His celebration of the mundane reflected the beginnings of a modern sensibility

The Guardian - UK

Margaret Atwood: ‘It would be fun to talk to Simone de Beauvoir’

The author on being banned in Virginia, communicating with dead writers and her new short story collection, the first since the death of her partner

The Guardian - UK

Carol Vorderman, Dawn French and Ian Wright lead stars backing Gary Lineker amid BBC row

Celebrities have been among those expressing support for former football and pundit Gary Lineker amid an impartiality row involving the presenter and the BBC following a tweet he made recently

Daily Mirror

Who has lent their support to Gary Lineker amid BBC row?

Many high-profile figures including Carol Vorderman and Ian Wright have lent their support to Lineker after his impartiality row with the BBC.

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The Guardian - UK

The Comedy of Errors (More or Less) review – identical twins get a larky makeover

This cartoonish update of Shakespeare’s reunion tale, gleefully mixing in Madonna and modern language, has a great sense of fun

The Guardian - AU

Bernhardt/Hamlet review – Kate Mulvany is astonishingly good

Melbourne Theatre Company, Sumner TheatreMulvany juggles comedy and vulnerability in her performance as the grand dame who decides to liven up her career by playing Shakespeare’s Dane

Liverpool Echo

'You have to make your own opportunities if you're working class'

Alex Carr and Florence King helped found Old Fruit Jar Productions in 2019

Irish Mirror

Dame Judi Dench wipes tears after discovering Shakespeare link and royal connection

Legendary actress Dame Judi Dench finds a remarkable connection to her first professional role aged 17 in Hamlet on tonight's emotional Who Do You Think You Are?

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Macbeth review – the lady vanishes in filmic gangland hybrid

Imitating the Dog’s exciting live action-video fusion, which sets the Scottish play in a modern-day crime syndicate, leaves Lady Macbeth out in the cold

ABC News

Kate Mulvany returns to the stage after Amazon's Hunters to star as Sarah Bernhardt in Melbourne Theatre Company's Bernhardt/Hamlet

Actor and writer Kate Mulvany has recently played a Nazi-hunting nun for Amazon and an artist accused of murder for Foxtel. Now, she returns to the stage.

The Guardian - UK

The Merchant of Venice 1936 review – Shylock takes on Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts

A striking, slick adaptation of Shakespeare’s problematic play sees Tracy-Ann Oberman play a Jewish matriarch up against the fascists of 1930s London

The Guardian - UK

‘It takes a community to develop a musician’: the Royal Philharmonic Society’s John Gilhooly

In an edited extract from his speech at the 2023 Royal Philharmonic awards, its chairman urges joined up thinking to ensure a healthy future for an art form that is central to the wellbeing and prosperity of our national life

WhatToWatch

Sinead Keenan — things you didn't know about the TV star

Sinead Keenan is best known for her role as Jess in Unforgotten. But what else do you need to know about her?

Tribune News Service

The Roald Dahl problem: Is it right to remove disturbing language from works of literature?

Bookmark: Once again, the books of Roald Dahl have been rewritten to remove words and phrases that might offend.

The Independent UK

Tracy-Ann Oberman: ‘Shakespeare could not avoid the attitude of hatred towards Jews at the time he was writing’

The actor talks to Sarah Crompton about setting ‘The Merchant of Venice’ at the time of Oswald Mosley’s fascists, and her thoughts on trigger warnings

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