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...Sam also recommends his conversations with Norman Lear and journalist Maria Ressa....
...‘King Lear’, Almeida Theatre Yaël Farber directs Danny Sapani (Killing Eve, Black Panther) in the title role of the Shakespearean tragedy....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...“I wrote a chapter on King Lear, and he said, ‘All that stuff at the front is very interesting but you’re basically just showing off....
...“Public trust can only be maintained when wrongdoing is held to account,” Superintendent Ted Hastings tells his superiors in the latest season of the BBC drama Line of Duty....
...He’s done King Lear. He’s done Hamlet, Othello. But the staging in this one is really contemporary....
...Are contemporary playwrights crafting their own versions of King Lear? Sonia Friedman thinks so....
...The Bard wrote numerous penetrating studies of madness of one kind or another — Hamlet, Lear, Leontes — but only Richard responds to nemesis so corrosively....
...It follows Phyllida Lloyd’s excellent all-female Shakespeare productions and recent illuminating gender-switch performances: Maxine Peake as Hamlet, Glenda Jackson as Lear among them....
...pages of James Shapiro’s keyhole biography of Shakespeare, 1599, and realised that he wasn’t just any actor, but the star of the show: that very year he had, it seemed, been the first man to play Henry V...
...gentle ensemble comedy generated by a cast that embodied the wonder and confusion of early childhood: Pooh, “the bear of little brain” whose natural modesty is unaffected by his ability to knock out Edward Lear-standard...
...The moment at the end of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part Two when Falstaff approaches his old boozing buddy Prince Hal to congratulate him on his coronation as King Henry V, only to be rebuffed with a curt...
...The term “vsmall” referred to a specific trade volume, while the letter “v” buried in the middle of the US dollar-Swiss franc currency pair identified the particular BNP client that traded....
...If Snow in Midsummer will be unfamiliar to British audiences, so will Henry V be to the Chinese — unlike favourites such as King Lear, the next Chinese translation due to be staged after Henry V....
...The plot is a Romantic conceit that sees two Highland clansmen challenge one another and King James V of Scotland for the heart of Elena, but the work is a winner for arresting atmosphere: forged from the...
..., Act IV, Sc 6 “A charmed life” – Macbeth, Act V, Sc 8 “Tower of strength” – Richard III, Act V, Sc 3 “Our revels now are ended” – The Tempest, Act IV, Sc 1 “Brave new world” – The Tempest, Act V, Sc...
...Henry V....
...Broadcast live to cinemas June 8 King Lear Royal Exchange, ManchesterDon Warrington plays King Lear in Yvonne Brewster’s new staging: a co-production with Talawa Theatre Company and Birmingham Rep (where...
...But, all in all, his background does seem pretty murky and we are concerned about her exposure to violent theatre; the body count in Hamlet is higher than a Rihanna video and King Lear makes Quentin Tarantino...
...He plays Philippe V of Spain, to whom the operatic castrato Farinelli became chamber musician in 1737....
...The comedy is far less well known than Lear in France, and director Bérangère Jannelle has taken its subtitle, What You Will, quite literally....
...He started so energetically, so full of fist-pumps, that it seemed we were heading for Act V of King Lear. Or, in his case, Deputy King Lear. It was the words that were the problem....
...These absurdist and ironic twists were all very well, I said to the V&A exhibition’s co-curators Catherine Flood and Gavin Grindon, but were they effective?...
...The key to Jude Law’s Henry V perhaps lies in a scene we never see: that poignant moment at the end of Henry IV when the young Hal tells his old drinking buddy Falstaff, “I know thee not, old man.”...
...Those early reactions to Lennon’s work 50 years ago, from Tom Maschler but also from those reviewers who compared it to work by Edward Lear, Spike Milligan and Hilaire Belloc, were among the earliest attempts...
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