Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet, review: Pointedly subversive Prince lacks spontaneity By Paul Taylor for The Independent, 25 August 2015 With his great gift for portraying the brilliant misfit and racing, ironic intellect, Benedict Cumberbatch is natural casting for Hamlet. But I wonder if a bit of him now wishes that he’d tackled the part at some point before the global success […]
By Michael Coveney for What’s On Stage, 23 July 2015 There is an interpolated prologue to Simon Godwin‘s highly intelligent and fast-moving production at the Globe: a boy king – looking remarkably like Mark Lester in Oliver! – is presented on a golden throne and the arena fills with gold dust. When the dust settles, Charles Edwards is in situ and we’re off, […]
By Nick Clark for the Independent, 9 July 2015 Mark Rylance, the actor, has criticised subsidised theatre companies including the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company for charging “way too much” for tickets. While the National has a long track record of offering discounted seats, the Wolf Hall star said it had a duty to cut prices further in return […]
By Lyn Gardner for The Guardian‘s Theatre blog, 17 March 2015 How should we introduce children to Shakespeare? I ask because it’s Shakespeare Week in primary schools, a nationwide initiative that aims to introduce the under-11s to the plays of the man who is inevitably dubbed in the online trailers as “the world’s greatest writer”. That always makes me think of Robert Graves’ pithy […]
By Ed Caesar for GQ, 20 January 2015 From Shakespeare to Steven Spielberg, the actor his peers agree is the greatest of his generation is breaking character and stepping off the stage to lend his gifts to two Hollywood blockbusters (and playing Thomas Cromwell in the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall). When GQ met theatre’s star turn we found a man powered by inner conflict […]
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