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...Richard III? Macbeth? The sly, double-crossing Edmund from King Lear? No, it’s Falstaff, the roguish old knight who hangs out with Prince Hal in east London’s less reputable taverns in Henry IV....
...been running the Berlin Schaubühne for more than 20 years and is known globally for his stunning, often visceral productions, combining high concept with raw humanity: Hamlet staged in a pit of earth; Richard...
.... ★★★☆☆ To January 27, backstairsbilly.com To Have and to Hold Hampstead Theatre, London Richard Bean’s new comedy opens with the opposite of a dramatic entrance....
...That preference for antiquity extends to Hardcastle’s butler, Diggory, a man of ancient years with a tenuous grasp on proceedings (Richard Derrington, very funny), and, more importantly for the plot, to...
...based on eyewitness accounts, Motive (originally staged at the National Theatre last spring) peers into the combustible rehearsal period for John Gielgud’s 1964 Broadway Hamlet, with megawatt film star Richard...
...Into this context strides Richard Jones’s new production of Pygmalion, with two superb actors at the helm: Bertie Carvel as the pompous phonetics expert Henry Higgins and Patsy Ferran as the cockney flower...
...Think of the blue soup in the film Bridget Jones’s Diary, where our heroine uses blue gardening twine in her recipe with disastrous results, or the dinner scene in Richard Bean’s farce One Man, Two Guvnors...
...Lyttelton), London There are fireworks and fights aplenty in The Motive and the Cue, but the image that lingers from Jack Thorne’s brilliant, compassionate new play is of two household names, John Gielgud and Richard...
...The moment when Tom Hollander’s Berezovsky realises just how far he has underestimated the new president has the force of a scene from Richard III....
...Asking these voters how they had come across Nigel Farage and Richard Tice’s party, the answer was uniform: the rightwing broadcaster GB News....
...Christopher Shutt’s sound design and Richard Skelton’s music can be menacing, suspenseful or tenderly lyrical....
...First performed at the Sheffield Crucible, it now moves into the National’s Olivier theatre, filling that huge space with story and song, drawn largely from Richard Hawley’s 2012 album of the same name....
...from Anna-Jane Casey as the golden-voiced Cilla (who announces her arrival by doing the splits), Genevieve Nicole as Camilla, Queen Consort, struggling to navigate doorways in an absurdly huge hat, and Richard...
...Richard Kent’s set, a skeletal union jack structure, hints at the cage of high office, and the performances are a delight in Indhu Rubasingham’s production....
...Richard III Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon A vast grey cenotaph towers over the empty stage for the entirety of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new Richard III: a constant physical reminder...
...Twenty minutes into my conversation with Richard Bean and Oliver Chris about their new comedy, we are having an in-depth discussion about a wooden duck.The duck makes its stage debut at London’s National...
...Nadarajah, a deaf actor, played Celia in As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe, it intensified the intimacy between Celia and Rosalind; Arthur Hughes, who has radial dysplasia, is finding new depths in Richard...
...‘Richard III’, Stratford-upon-Avon, June 23-October 8, rsc.org.uk...
...From 1947 he spent three years as director of productions at the Royal Opera House, where he caused uproar by staging Richard Strauss’s Salome with sets by Salvador Dalí....
...Patriots Almeida Theatre, London It’s a scene worthy of Shakespeare’s Richard III....
...Richard (Robert Lindsay) is a pioneering doctor, loved and lauded by many because of his innovations in IVF treatment....
...And no one emerges unscathed — neither the glib and pompous MP (Richard Goulding, so plausible he could run for office) nor the earnestly right-on Phoebe (Appiah very droll in her genuine but prim idealism...
...Soon he is toying with his children’s loyalty (King Lear), insulting Kamala Harris (more Richard III), and publicly humiliating Ted Cruz in the guise of support (Julius Caesar)....
...Verbatim “tribunal plays” by Nicolas Kent and Richard Norton-Taylor, replicating significant inquiries (the Grenfell Tower disaster being the most recent), have been important exercises in public information...
...A third, Dr Richard Myers (the IVF innovator), is at the centre of The Fever Syndrome by Alexis Zegerman (Hampstead Theatre, from March 18)....
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