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How Shakespeare’s The Tempest can help readers understand the hidden costs of AI

In the 400 years since his death, William Shakespeare’s work has been used as a lens through which to interpret countless developments he could never have anticipated – from modern psychology and political theory to colonialism and climate change. His writing possesses an uncanny ability to illuminate nearly every facet…

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The Tempest review – Kenneth Branagh returns to the RSC in this enchanting production

Prospero is reimagined as a conductor in this superbly orchestrated version of Shakespeare’s tragicomedy

The Guardian - UK

'Forbidden Planet' at 70: Why the original sci-fi blockbuster is still out of this world

The movie that took Shakespeare to the stars, and wrote the blueprint for movie space opera.

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The Tempest review – Tim Crouch’s high-concept treatment roughs up the magic

Some spells are cast by this production, in which the director plays Prospero, but it also wearingly replays the same tricks

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Grim, funny and unremitting, Evelyn Araluen’s The Rot is a book attuned to dark times

“Girly, there’s something rotten in your keep cup,” Evelyn Araluen writes in Girl Work!, a poem in her new collection, The Rot.

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Shobana Jeyasingh Dance: We Caliban review – postcolonial take on The Tempest is difficult to pin down

Jeyasingh’s choreography is well wrought and precise but Caliban’s struggles feel adrift amid a sea of ideas

The Guardian - UK

Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg and Caliban’s take on The Tempest: the best theatre, comedy and dance of autumn 2025

Andrea Riseborough and Sarandon deliver a decade-hopping drama, superstar standups hit the road and Shobana Jeyasingh rewrites Shakespeare

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The Tempest review – drama in the heavens adds real magic to tumultuous tale

This outdoor offering, part homage and part reimagining of Shakespeare’s text, has visual spectacle, a magnificent score and a cast undeterred by an actual storm

The Guardian - UK

This ain’t America’s trash, it’s Shakespeare’s

Letters: Mark Lewinski-Grende and Austen Lynch on the American English that started off over here, not over there

The Guardian - UK

Caliban Shrieks by Jack Hilton review – lost voice of the north

This rediscovered mix of autobiography and ‘artful rant’ – about working-class conditions in the 1930s – is full of energy and comedy

The Guardian - UK

Let’s teach children about slavery properly by connecting it to our present

When treated purely as historical fact, the slave trade can be dismissed as an evil of the past – the reality is very different says English teacher and writer Lola Okolosie

The Guardian - UK

The Tempest review – Alex Kingston is a magnificent Prospero

Climate catastrophe and power struggles dominate Elizabeth Freestone’s RSC interpretation of Shakespeare’s play

The Guardian - UK

We've been editing Shakespeare's plays for 400 years – but does a new Australian production of The Tempest idealise the Bard?

Review: The Tempest, directed by Kip Williams, Sydney Theatre Company.

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The Tempest review – Shakespeare gets a radical edit from Sydney Theatre Company

Richard Roxburgh as Prospero and Guy Simon as Caliban are outstanding in Kip Williams’ latest production, which takes a revolutionary approach to the script

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The Tempest at Shakespeare’s Globe review: Some rough edges but a sunny delight

Even Shakespeare is not immune to the Love Island aesthetic

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