Maggie O’Farrell’s multi-prize-winning novel about Shakespeare’s family has been adapted for the RSC by Lolita Chakrabarti and directed by Erica Whyman. 18-year-old William, a Latin tutor, living in W ...
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The way Shylock, the Jewish moneylender, is portrayed has changed over the centuries. Initially, in Shakespeare’s day, he was played as a comic villain. In 1741, Charles Macklin was the first actor to ...
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Something old, something new, something borrowed, something… green? In Masque of Might the heavenly, seventeenth century baroque music of Henry Purcell is married with a hellish, surreal (yet horribly ...
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Cameron Mackintosh, who had a lifetime of collaboration with Stephen Sondheim, devised Old Friends, a spectacular, one-night, all-star ensemble gala concert in 2022 to honour Sondheim who had died in ...
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