Commentary: Our shameful national fatalism on guns “Murder most foul,” cries the ghost of Hamlet’s father to explain his own killing in Shakespeare’s play. Tribune News Service · Mar 31, 2023
Alison Steadman: ‘We filmed the sex scene in the New Forest, so it was quite prickly’ The actor on working with Dennis Potter, channelling real life in Abigail’s Party and a groundbreaking lesbian snog The Guardian - UK · Mar 30, 2023
Searching for Juliet by Sophie Duncan review – the many faces of a heroine An engaging guide to Shakespeare’s most famous female role – and how it has been misread and misplayed for centuries The Guardian - UK · Mar 30, 2023
Leaps of joy Presented in collaboration with the Tourism Authority of Thailand and B.Grimm, the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra continued their wonderfully varied 2023 concert season at the Thailand Cultural Centre earlier this month with a programme devoted entirely to the incomparable genius of German composer Felix Mendelssohn. Bangkok Post · Mar 29, 2023
The Winter’s Tale review: jarring Shakespeare's Globe production lacks warmth The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s great “hospitality plays” – a tragicomedy about what goes wrong when a guest outstays their welcome. The Conversation · Mar 28, 2023
'Great Expectations' review: A dismal remodel of a Charles Dickens tale FX, in partnership with the BBC, has made a dreary, dismal and not very Dickensian miniseries out of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations." And while that seems to be in some measure the point, it is, all the same, dreary and dismal and does not count so much as an adaptation… Los Angeles Times · Mar 27, 2023
Great Expectations Cast: Where You've Seen The Stars Of FX's Charles Dickens-Based TV Show The Great Expectations cast should make this miniseries adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic worth a look. Cinemablend · Mar 26, 2023
Rare copy of Othello shows a cast list involved in real-life murder drama A 1655 edition of Shakespeare’s tragedy names members of an acting troupe, one of whom was slain in an eerie echo of the play The Guardian - UK · Mar 26, 2023
Teacher in awe as students gift him 152-page book of 'craziest' things he's ever said People have been left gobsmacked after a group of students worked together to create what might just be the funniest present ever - as they gifted their teacher a book of his unusual sayings Daily Mirror · Mar 25, 2023
Two sides to a story: why feminist retellings are filling our bookshelves From Nineteen Eighty-Four’s Julia to Shakespeare’s Rosaline, the trend for a new perspective on a familiar tale is continuing apace. Authors and publishers explain what old stories tell us about today The Guardian - UK · Mar 24, 2023
Geraldine James cast as Rosalind in RSC production of As You Like It The 72-year-old actor will play a young woman in the latest example of age-blind casting in a Shakespeare production The Guardian - UK · Mar 23, 2023
Erling Haaland knows one record is out of reach - set by striker compared to Shakespeare Dixie Dean is the Everton forward who scored 60 league goals in the 1927-28 season - and Haaland would have to score a hat-trick in every one of his final 11 top-flight games to beat the record Daily Mirror · Mar 23, 2023
GPT-4 shouldn’t worry anybody – we just need to be better Text generators have been around for years, but they’ve finally gotten good. Where previous iterations required a heavy edit, the latest version of ChatGPT from OpenAI writes with better grammar than I – sorry, me. But both chatbots and generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like the newly launched GPT-4 also… IT Pro · Mar 18, 2023
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 · Mar 17, 2023
WEKU · Mar 16, 2023 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."
Evening Standard · Mar 15, 2023 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.
Daily Record · Mar 15, 2023 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 Mirror · Mar 15, 2023 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 Record · Mar 14, 2023 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 · Mar 14, 2023 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.
Wales Online · Mar 13, 2023 The full list of BBC colleagues and celebrities supporting Gary Lineker The broadcaster is reportedly set to make an apology to the presenter
The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2023 ‘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 · Mar 12, 2023 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 · Mar 12, 2023 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 · Mar 11, 2023 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