By Ben Tavener for BBC News, 12 April 2015 Exploring feelings through playing different roles is recognised as helping people with mental health problems. And the theory has led one doctor to bring Shakespeare to Rio de Janeiro. “Ser ou nao ser, eis a questao!” – “To be, or not to be. That is the question!” bellows a rugged, masked […]
By AFP for hindustantimes.com, 6 April 2015 Mixing traditional theatre with modern technology, a new Syrian version of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is offering a unique twist on the classic love story. Romeo is a young Syrian refugee in Jordan, and his beloved is trapped in the region of Homs — their only means of communication through Skype and other online […]
By Andrew Dickinson for The Guardian, 31 March 2015 A South African academic reckons it’s time to dig up William Shakespeare. Inspired by the revelations about Richard III, recently liberated from a car park in Leicester, professor Francis Thackeray of Wits University, in Johannesburg, claims he is “very interested by the possibility” of subjecting Shakespeare to the same treatment. “Given the extraordinary success of the […]
By The Telegraph video and PA, 23 March 2015 Members of the public will be able to view the coffin of Richard III, as he lies in repose at Leicester Cathedral ahead of his reburial later this week, more than 500 years after his death in battle. Thousands lined the route of the last Plantagenet king’s cortege yesterday before a special service […]
By Victoria Ward for The Telegraph, 30 March 2015 An academic has called for Shakespeare’s remains to be exhumed so that more can be learned about his life, following the successful analysis of Richard III’s bones. Francis Thackeray, from the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, said he was “very interested in the possibility” of examining Shakespeare’s grave. “Given the extraordinary […]
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