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Helen Mirren and Ian Mckellen celebrate launch of RSC Shakespeare curriculum app

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) unveiled its new digital learning app on Wednesday, 12 November, at Middle Temple, the historic site of the first Twelfth Night performance in 1604.

The Independent UK

Ian McKellen admits he struggles to perform Shakespeare roles

Speaking at the launch of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new digital learning app on Wednesday (12 November), Sir Ian McKellen confessed that he still grapples with the complexities of Shakespeare’s language, even after more than 60 years on stage.

The Independent UK

Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen launch new Shakespeare curriculum

Dame Helen Mirren has expressed her profound excitement over a new Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) curriculum, designed to revolutionise the teaching of Shakespeare in UK secondary schools.

The Independent UK

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Helen Mirren ‘unbelievably excited’ to help launch RSC’s Shakespeare curriculum

The curriculum is a teaching and learning platform that is free for all state and Send schools.

Evening Standard

Holocaust Survivor Ruth Posner And Husband Send Email To Friends After Taking Their Own Lives

“We’ve had enough. We’re ready to go.”

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David Killick obituary

Other lives: Actor whose 60-year career spanned the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre, as well as popular TV shows such as A Touch of Frost

The Guardian - UK

London actress and Holocaust survivor, 96, dies with husband, 97, at Swiss suicide clinic after emailing family goodbye

Ruth Posner, 96, and her husband Michael, 97, said their final goodbyes in an email to family members

Evening Standard

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Alex Kingston: The ER and Doctor Who favourite competing on Strictly

The actor is known by millions as beloved TV characters Dr Elizabeth Corday and River Song

The Independent UK

Sir Kenneth Branagh: We have to work harder to earn the audience’s attention

The Oppenheimer star made his first appearance with the Royal Shakespeare Company aged 23 in the 1984 production of Henry V.

Evening Standard

Kenneth Branagh returns to Royal Shakespeare Company for first time in 30 years

Sir Kenneth, best known for Belfast and Hamlet, made his first appearance with the theatre company aged 23 in the 1984 production of Henry V.

Evening Standard

Coronation Street’s Katherine Kelly looks back: ‘My friends were very accepting of me being a bit different’

The actor on wearing men’s clothes, her bohemian family and the six-week soap job that turned into six years

The Guardian - UK

Fiona Shaw opens up about ‘terrible’ car accident that killed her brother as she rose to fame

‘Harry Potter’ star recalls tragedy that rocked her life at start of career

The Independent UK

Sam Heughan to play Macbeth in Royal Shakespeare Company debut

Outlander star Sam Heughan is to play Macbeth in his debut with the Royal Shakespeare Company

The National (Scotland)

Oil industry funded Girl Scouts and British Museum to boost image, evidence suggests

BP has funded Washington’s National Gallery of Art, UK’s Royal Shakespeare Company and National Portrait Gallery

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The Independent UK

Clive Revill death: Star Wars and Batman actor dies at 94

New Zealand-born actor was a veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company and made two films with Billy Wilder

The Independent UK

Performing arts bosses protest government’s AI plans

Chief executives from the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Albert Hall and National Theatre have shared joint statement urging government to support ‘moral and economic’ rights of creatives

The Guardian - UK

Bardy Thomas obituary

Other lives: Voice coach at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Royal Shakespeare Company and Rada

Evening Standard

David Tennant offers to donate his own skull for iconic Hamlet scene

The actor - who was heralded for his turn in Royal Shakespeare Company production - would be happy to return to play from beyond the grave

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The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced a Her Story-like game where you hack into Lady MacBeth's computer

Out damned Spotify.

The Guardian - UK

Arnold Yarrow obituary

EastEnders actor and writer who also enjoyed a fruitful radio and theatre career, latterly with the Royal Shakespeare Company

The Independent UK

King ‘wants to be involved’ with theatre despite heavy schedule, actor says

Alex Jennings, who played the then-Prince of Wales in the 2006 film The Queen, praised Charles for his ‘fantastic support’ for dramatic arts.

WhatToWatch

Tracy-Ann Oberman — things you didn't know about the TV star

Tracy-Ann Oberman is set to make an explosive return to EastEnders, but what else is there to know about her?

Marie Claire

Here's why The School for Scandal (at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre) is on our must-watch list

The RSC is taking The School for Scandal to new heights with a lavish production at their Stratford theatre

The Guardian - UK

‘Don’t come if you are worried’: former RSC boss says he hates trigger warnings for plays

Gregory Doran asks how content warnings could be issued for Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

The Guardian - UK

Gregory Doran to finally direct 36th play from Shakespeare’s First Folio – for student production

The former RSC director, now visiting professor of contemporary theatre at Oxford University, will stage The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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