By Kit Chellel for Bloomberg Business, 18 June 2015 Shakespeare-quoting hackers targeted British banks. Police led a global operation to stop the heist, but can they catch the Shylock gang? ACT I: DISCOVERY Gal Frishman scours the Internet looking for things most people try to avoid — malicious bits of software sent out to spy or steal. On Aug. 25, […]
By Christopher Hooton for the Independent, 12 June Shakespeare can be a little challenging as a teenager but that’s part of the joy of-NEVER MIND there’s a TL;DR version now! Penguin has launched an OMG Shakespeare series that reimagines his most famous plays in the digital age, with titles including Macbeth #killingit A Midsummer Night #NoFilter and YOLO Juliet. The plays, retold by Courtney Carbone and Brett Wright, […]
By James Rothwell for The Telegraph, 7 June 2015 For many he is the greatest playwright of all time, a man whose timeless works have enriched the English language and produced hundreds of immortal phrases. But even Shakespeare’s biggest fans may struggle to tell you how many of his plays feature eye-gouging, or which one produced the expression “What the dickens?” […]
By Daisy Wyatt for the Independent, 4 June 2015 The first anticipated trailer for Macbeth has been released, showing Michael Fassbender as one of Shakespeare’s most bloodthirsty tragic heroes. Directed by Justin Kurzel, the long-awaited film stars Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose, Rust and Bone) as a beautiful but icy Lady Macbeth. The dramatic trailer shows Fassbender covered in blood in scenes narrated in a Scottish […]
By Tim Treanor for DC Theatre Scene.com, 12 May 2015 So you run your lance full-bore at windmills, recruit a barber in your fight against the muleteers, believe a local prostitute to be your damsel of grace, and then fall into a coma. Should someone be appointed to take care of you? What will the Supreme Mock Court – the […]
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