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...The Glass Eye crew takes this satanic screed in earnest, even when Novak begins to sound oddly like a hippie-era version of “Billy Shaker’s” villain “Dicky Trey” (Richard III)....
...Downing Street confirmed on Friday that 26 new peers — 13 of whom will have conservative affiliations — have been approved by King Charles III....
...Parker III says: America’s future is unpredictable. Just leave it at that....
...Details Kitty Grady was a guest of English Heritage (english-heritage.org.uk) and the Library House Hotel (libraryhouse.com)....
...Shortcross Gin, produced at the Rademon Estate Distillery in County Down, Northern Ireland, by husband-and-wife team David and Fiona Boyd-Armstrong, is heavy on foraged botanicals....
...John Boyd Dunlop invented the world’s first air-cushioned tyre in 1888 and by the 1950s the company employed about 12,000 people on the Erdington site that locals refer to as Fort Dunlop....
...The hardest thing I’ve pulled off, apart from, I hope, reviving the RSC, was Henry VI, Parts I, II and III and Richard III as part of The Histories. What has been your greatest disappointment?...
...The hotel’s lobby, reception area and restaurant will play host to a selling exhibition of work by emerging artists Gabriella Boyd, Tahnee Lonsdale and Timothy Hon Hung Lee, represented by Saatchi’s online...
...In Two Poses for Richard III from Brazil’s Companhia BufoMecanica, which played in Stratford in May, for example, the History plays were given a circus-like treatment that, according to Boyd, “introduced...
...“And the assassin of Gustav III, who shot the king at the opera, lived around the corner.” Rising up around the square is the Stockholm School of Economics....
...Jonathan Slinger does not begin this production as compellingly as his previous Royal Shakespeare Company portrayals of other kings, Richard II and III....
...“Loudon [Wainwright III, McGarrigle’s husband] and I used to feud over tennis; now it’s over who can produce the most musical offspring.”...
...In 2007, under current artistic director Michael Boyd, the RSC returned to the idea of mounting the entire history play cycle, in The Histories....
...This may well be my greatest single criticism about the second tetralogy of Michael Boyd’s RSC production of Shakespeare’s history plays....
...I meet Boyd in the middle of rehearsals....
...With this production, the RSC’s artistic director Michael Boyd completes his grand projet of staging Shakespeare’s entire (accidentally accreted) Plantagenet history cycle with the same ensemble of actors...
...But now, in reviving Richard III, the designer Michael Boyd has shifted most elements into the modern era....
...Company artistic director Michael Boyd....
...Richard III: An Arab Tragedy will be playing in Stratford at the same time as Michael Boyd’s acclaimed, orthodox production of the same play, but that does not faze Al-Bassam, who compares the two versions...
...Boyd’s device, boiling down the father/son mourning into a single pair (opening further in Richard III), proves overwhelming, a recurring tragic summation of all the many other mourning fathers and sons...
...Katy Stephens plays both Joan of Arc and Queen Margaret in the RSC’s upcoming production of Henry VI, Part I, II and III....
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