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...Not when Ian McKellen is at the helm. His pantomime dame wields the words of Shakespeare....
...And, for all her protestations about “dashing out” her baby’s brains, it’s the reality of the savage murder of Macduff’s family that tips Ronan’s Lady Macbeth over the edge....
...She is all preening cat smiles alternating with fine-lady faux innocence. Since they are not playing Shakespeare, as we’d prefer, this is all very wearing....
...Theatre Ian McKellen’s solo show about his life in theatre also owes a debt to vaudeville....
...I’d love to know if Sir Ian McKellen felt the same. Dame Judi has clearly been stinging that she never got to fulfil her feline potential in the first place....
...Richard E Grant, 59, has appeared in more than 80 films, including Withnail & I, Gosford Park and The Iron Lady. In 2004, he wrote and directed the autobiographical film Wah-Wah....
...He will be talking to the actor Sir Ian McKellen about their lives in Shakespeare at the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival on Sunday April 3 Illustration by Matthew Cook Photograph: Getty...
...He is referring to The Grapes, an old-fashioned English boozer in Limehouse, east London, which he co-owns with the actor Ian McKellen and director Sean Mathias. The pub has an illustrious history....
...Yet in the scene where McKellen’s Richard seduces Lady Anne, whose husband he has just killed, he is so, well, seductive that the ridiculous winning of her becomes wholly believable....
...and his direction of Smith in Albee’s “Three Tall Ladies” was one of her greatest successes in the 1990s....
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