Audience members said baby’s cooing and gurgling ruined Branagh’s return to the RSC after 30 years, with some seeking refunds
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Rivals’ Rutshire – a place where modern Britain’s brutal divisions disappear in a cloud of sex | Jess Cartner-Morley ⊕
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As the second series of the Jilly Cooper adaptation climaxes, we can be thankful that quality TV doesn’t always have to be bleak and stressful
For Jilly Cooper devotees – a motley band that unites me …
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The Tempest review – Kenneth Branagh returns to the RSC in this enchanting production ⊕
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
Prospero is reimagined as a conductor in this superbly orchestrated version of Shakespeare’s tragicomedy
Kenneth Branagh is said to have played 35 Shakesp…
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Such stuff as dreams are made on: King Charles stuns theatregoers by turning up unannounced to watch Shakespeare's The Tempest at Stratford ⊕
Charles was greeted by the Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire, Tim Cox, as well as the Royal Shakespeare Company's (RSC) co-artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey.
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‘I have a lot of rage inside me’: Bob Odenkirk on Saul, satire and his heart attack ○
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He made his name as a conman, but now Bob Odenkirk is on the right side of the law in Normal. He answers your questions about Henry Winkler, Bruce Dern and Shakespeare
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If This Be Magic by Daniel Hahn review – how on earth do you translate Shakespeare? ⊕
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Is Hamlet still Hamlet when every word has changed? A superbly diverting book about language and creativity
The great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, who translated William Faulkner, André Gide, F…
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Dancing on a Volcano album review – a glorious technicolour snapshot of pre-war musical Germany ⊕⊕
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From Hindemith’s jazz-age energy to Schoenberg’s existential angst, and Kurt Weill’s biting satire to Korngold’s neo-Romanticism, this liv…
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Michael Pennington was an actor of astonishing range, a wise writer and witty company ⊕⊕
Over his kaleidoscopic career, the great Shakespearean was a stalwart of the RSC, co-founded a ‘rock’n’roll’ theatre company and excelled at Chekhov and Pinter
Michael Pennington was what Richard II –…
Michael Pennington, Shakespeare and Star Wars actor, dies aged 82 ⊖
‘Brilliant, wise’ co-founder of English Shakespeare Company celebrated for roles including Macbeth and Mercutio
The actor Michael Pennington, known for his Shakespearean work and his role in the origi…
Molière Ex Machina: AI used to create ‘new work’ by beloved French playwright ⊕⊕
Comedy debuts at Versailles featuring dialogue, music, costumes and scenery created with help of AI tool Le Chat
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Molière is to the French what Shakespeare is to the English…