Anita Singh, The Telegraph June 1, 2014 Dame Judi Dench is to star opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Richard III after the Sherlock actor ambushed her during a Shakespeare masterclass. The veteran actress will play Queen Margaret to Cumberbatch’s hunchbacked monarch in a BBC production this autumn. Appearing before an audience on the final day of the Hay Festival, in conversation […]
Interviewed by Steve Rowland Bayan Shbib; actress and drama teacher with Ashtar Theater, Palestine Bayan joined the Ramallah-based Ashtar Theatre in 2005 as an actress and drama teacher. In 2005 she won the prize for best young storyteller in the International Storytelling Festival in Birmingham, and just a year later she was awarded the prize for best actress in […]
Esther Zuckerman, The Wire May 14, 2014 Today we got our first glance at Michael Fassbender’s Macbeth, in the form of a poster out of Cannes. Of course, Fassbender is not only the latest star to play the Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, but also the latest member of the X-Men to play the part. As others have realized—and McKellen himself […]
Daniel Hannan, The Telegraph May 16, 2014 When I was thirteen, I watched the 1983 Granada TV production of King Lear, with Lawrence Olivier in the title role. It’s sometimes said that by the time you’re old enough to play Lear you’re too old to play him, and Olivier proved the adage both ways. He had acted the part […]
David-Tennant.com May 10, 2014 All three parts of the Arkangel Shakespeare recordings of Henry VI starring David Tennant as the King are now available as MP3 downloads. The recordings were made as part of a massive undertaking to produce a series of unabridged dramatised productions of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays which began in 1998. Almost 400 actors, nearly all past […]
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