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...“There are alternative sources of mined uranium in the world, such as Australia and Canada, but the weakest link in the nuclear supply chain is enriched fuel,” says Kevin Book of Clearview Energy Partners...
...‘King Lear’, Almeida Theatre Yaël Farber directs Danny Sapani (Killing Eve, Black Panther) in the title role of the Shakespearean tragedy....
...Succession may be a modern King Lear, but Shakespeare wrote more comedies than tragedies....
...And with all the Lears and Macbeths, the Cyranos and Arturo Uis, that Plummer had also played, in a long life as both stage star and screen star....
...) available on DVD, rsc.org.uk; ‘King Lear’ (with Kevin McNally and Loren O’Dair) available on globeplayer.tv Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...Kevin R. McNally makes a good, subtle Lear. Unpredictable and forgetful from the start, he first chuckles at the response from Cordelia (a defiant Anjana Vasan) to his command, then lurches into rage....
...His latest interviewee is Kevin Bacon, who has been working in the entertainment industry since he was 17 (he’s now 59) and is currently starring in the new Amazon show I Love Dick....
...And Glenda Jackson as Lear! This is what we don’t have in opera. So many of the women in opera are either the young love interest or victims....
...Ejiofor won an Olivier for the role, ahead of Sir Ian McKellen’s Lear and Sir Patrick Stewart’s Macbeth....
...stjamestheatre.co.uk, 0844 264 2140, to February 28 King Lear, Holy Trinity Church, Guildford If anyone can out-bellow the wild winds on the heath it is surely Brian Blessed, and here he is playing Lear...
...He has never been a Shakespearean, so his Hickey — jovial, swaggering, full of fury — is in effect his Lear....
...Harold’s Hungry Eyes, by Kevin Waldron, Phaidon, RRP£10.95/$16.95 Harold is a small dog with an insatiable appetite, who sees food everywhere....
...Unfortunately Kevin Spacey goes easy on the smiles. He has none of Richard’s glee or Edmund’s fatalistic relish of his dark side....
...In Shakespeare, Othello is doomed by jealousy, Lear by pride. Memorably “unattractive”, Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray is destroyed by narcissism and depravity....
...I’m not sure if a new version of Fame was really needed, and young Kevin Tancharoen is no Alan Parker....
...On the advertisement for this Lear Kevin Kline resembles a superannuated Pan, an image that his performance as the king mostly belies....
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