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James McArdle: ‘Boris Johnson missed the point of Macbeth’
The actor chats the Scottish play and the BBC’s Life After Life. Read my full The i Paper interview here
Posted in Fiction, Journalism, Theatre, TV
Tagged actor, adaptation, almeida theatre, bbc, book, boris johnson, drama, inews, interview, james mcardle, kate atkinson, life after life, london, macbeth, novel, play, Saoirse Ronan, shakespeare, the i paper, theatre, tv
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Macbeth, National Theatre
We begin and end with a grisly decapitation. And that’s rather the problem with this intermittently engaging Macbeth, which starts in the throes of some unspecified dystopian hellscape, and thus has nowhere to go. Read my full BroadwayWorld review here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged anne-marie duff, broadwayworld, london, macbeth, national theatre, review, rory kinnear, rufus norris, shakespeare, theatre
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Macbeth, Shakespeare’s Globe
It begins promisingly, a dark Gothic fairy tale – both Grimm and grim. The writhing witches (four, oddly) are summoned from a pile of dead bodies, Stefan Fichert’s eerie puppetry all chopped-up limbs and interchanging demonic heads, hands scuttling across … Continue reading
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Tagged drama, globe, iqbal kahn, london, macbeth, ray fearon, review, shakespeare, stage, tara fitzgerald, the arts desk, theartsdesk, theatre
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RSC collaborates on Shakespeare In Art exhibition at Compton Verney
As part of the Bard’s 400th anniversary celebrations, the gallery at Compton Verney in Warwickshire – which is just nine miles away from Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon – has joined forces with the RSC to create a new exhibition. SHAKESPEARE IN … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged 400, anniversary, art, artist, compton verney, drama, exhibition, film, gallery, hamlet, helen mirren, john singer sargent, judi dench, macbeth, painting, peter hall, photograph, play, rossetti, rsc, shakespeare, shakespeare in art, the tempest, theatre
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Macbeth, Young Vic
Events have overtaken this Macbeth, dramatically heightening its queasy topicality. Not just brutal beheadings and torture, but the cost and collateral damage of conflict without end, and the scourge of a tyrant slaughtering his own people, strike one anew in … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged anna maxwell martin, carrie cracknell, dance, death, drama, john heffernan, king, london, lucy guerin, macbeth, movement, murder, play, review, shakespeare, the arts desk, the scottish play, theartsdesk, theatre, war, young vic
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Dead Sheep, Park Theatre
While seven-way debate rages, broadcaster and debuting playwright Jonathan Maitland takes us back 25 years to a radically different political landscape: a time of regents, and of regicide. It’s 1990 – Thatcher the leader claiming divine right to rule, Geoffrey … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, alan clark, bertie carvel, budget, cabinet, comedy, conservative, debate, denis healey, drama, economy, eighties, election, elspeth howe, europe, eurosceptic, feminism, foreign secretary, geoffrey howe, house of commons, iron lady, john major, jonathan maitland, lady macbeth, leader, london, loyalty, macbeth, margaret thatcher, marriage, matilda, minister, north london, park theatre, parliament, paxman, play, politician, politics, prime minister, puppet, resignation, review, satire, sketch, spitting image, steve nallon, thatcher, the arts desk, theartsdesk, theatre, tory, trunchbull
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