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Cillian Murphy on the Peaky Blinders movie: ‘There’s a blurring of lines between me and Tommy’

IN FOCUS : The Irish actor, along with his new ‘Peaky’ co-stars Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Roth, tell Patrick Smith how the Birmingham gangster series will keep its deathly cool on the big screen

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I didn’t really enjoy being prime minister, Tony Blair admits

The documentary about Sir Tony Blair’s life also saw his wife reveal he has never bought her flowers

The Independent UK

Macbeth review – just an everyday couple crazed by poisonous power

In a stark modern staging, Mark Babych frames the tragedy as a story of ordinary lives spiralling into catastrophe

The Guardian - UK

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All Is But Fantasy review – Lady Macbeth, Juliet and the girls belt out their grumbles as the witches let rip

Whitney White’s thrilling, song-filled show flips Shakespeare’s great characters and asks why we still lap up these tales of sexy men killing sexy women

The Guardian - UK

From Nouvelle Vague to Mock the Week: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Richard Linklater pens a love letter to the greats of French cinema, and the satirical panel show finds a new home

The Guardian - UK

Burns Night: What to eat and drink to celebrate Scotland’s greatest poet

In the dark of January, the fun of Burns night lets the light in

Evening Standard

‘To me, Lady Macbeth sounds like Tina Turner’: the musical mashup about to rock the RSC

In All Is But Fantasy, the fates of Juliet, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra and more are given a thrilling twist by US writer, director and singer Whitney White. She talks about untimely deaths – and being left speechless by Judi Dench

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A Russian opera opens La Scala's season as the theater defends art over politics

Milan’s Teatro alla Scala celebrates its gala season premiere with a Russian opera, Dmitry Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.”

The Independent UK

I Loved Hamnet For Many Reasons, But The Way It Explores Art Is One Of My Favorites. Let's Talk About It.

It's the best...

Cinemablend

Helen Mirren ‘unbelievably excited’ to help launch RSC’s Shakespeare curriculum

The curriculum is a teaching and learning platform that is free for all state and Send schools.

Evening Standard

‘I really enjoyed it’: new RSC curriculum brings Shakespeare’s works to life in UK classrooms

Starting with Macbeth, online platform using rehearsal-based teaching methods aims to transform study of the Bard

The Guardian - UK

James McAvoy Recalls The Moment He Had With Patrick Stewart And Ian McKellen On X-Men: Days Of Future Past That Showed Him They’re ‘A Different Kind Of Actor’

I'd have been impressed too.

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John Woodvine obituary

Actor who played senior police officers on TV and delighted critics with his Falstaff for the English Shakespeare Company

The Guardian - UK

Marion Cotillard at 50: the actor’s 20 best films – ranked!

We rate her most impressive performances, from Lady Macbeth to Edith Piaf to a Batman baddie

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David Ellis reviews The Macbeth: Something wickedly good this way comes

This is somewhere that feels real, says David Ellis — no play-acting, no plot to keep up with

The Independent UK

Will Crutchfield's Teatro Nuovo revives Verdi's 'Macbeth' with period instruments

Verdi can be played on original instruments, too

The Guardian - UK

Out, damned shot! Macbeth becomes a cutthroat netball musical at Edinburgh fringe

Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence combines comedy, songs and athleticism as a young netball player reckons with her own ambitions against an electro-pop score

The Guardian - UK

Shakespeare in war: bard’s ‘existential’ theatre takes hold in Ukraine

‘There is a big need for theatre to work with existential problems,’ says translator, as Shakespeare productions boom across Ukraine

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Evening Standard

Pupils at King’s former school perform Shakespeare at home where he stayed

Local people enjoyed free performances of The Tempest.

The Conversation

As one of Shakespeare’s least performed plays, Coriolanus is startlingly relevant under Trump 2.0

Coriolanus is one of Shakespeare’s least performed plays; perhaps because the hero is so pugnacious and classist, impressive in his strident vehemence, but lacking the vulnerability of a Macbeth or Othello.

The Guardian - AU

Inflexible autocrat, unchecked power – Coriolanus is ‘never not timely’. So why is this Shakespeare play so rarely staged?

The bruising exploration of politics, power and civic identity plays out in front of an audience split into two sides for Bell Shakespeare’s take

The National (Scotland)

Sam Heughan to play Macbeth in Royal Shakespeare Company debut

Outlander star Sam Heughan is to play Macbeth in his debut with the Royal Shakespeare Company

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50 Historical Garments That Would Break The Internet If Worn Today

A fitting trip down the runway of time!

Evening Standard

Outlander’s Sam Heughan to play Macbeth in Royal Shakespeare Company debut

The British theatre company has announced a new raft of programming.

The Guardian - UK

Violent and lewd! Not Grand Theft Auto, Shakespeare’s Macbeth

If Shakespeare were around today, he’d be making open-world shooters with the same depth and diversion as his plays

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