Martin Dowle, British Council June 5, 2014 Why do Ukrainians identify with issues in Hamlet? The Shakespeare’s Globe theatre company performed the play in Kyiv, despite the recent turmoil in the country. Martin Dowle, the British Council’s country director in Ukraine, recounts. Like in Hamlet’s ‘play within a play’, the Globe actors performed in front of the country’s leaders On the eve […]
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph June 6, 2014 Do you have 10am Monday August 11 pencilled in your diary, pasted into your e-planner or scribbled on a Post-It note and stuck somewhere prominent? Well, you should do – if, that is, you want to have a hope in hell of getting to see Benedict Cumberbatch tread the boards at the Barbican in […]
Alison Flood, The Guardian May 28, 2014 Gone Girl author joins the likes of Margaret Atwood and Anne Tyler in series that rethinks Shakespeare’s stories ‘for contemporary readers’. Gillian Flynn, whose thriller Gone Girl explored a dark and twisted tale of revenge within a marriage, is set to give her own spin to perhaps the most famous story of revenge in literary […]
Mark Kennedy, Associated Press May 20, 2014 NEW YORK (AP) — The hero of a new audiobook is introduced as he lies in bed, trying to sleep on a frigid day in 1601. He’s the heir to the Danish throne, a tall handsome man of 27 with “a pale, finely chiseled face” and “mournful eyes that were the pale […]
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star April 24, 2014 Sitting in a hotel room listening to British actor Tom Hiddleston recite Hamlet is not a bad way to start a day. The 33-year-old star of Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, opening Friday in Toronto after successful runs at Cannes and TIFF 2013, was musing on the inspiration for his character in the film, […]
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