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Desmond McNamara obituary

Other lives: Actor who worked on stage with the Young Vic, National and RSC, and was a familiar face on TV

The Guardian - UK

West End to dim lights in honour of ‘visionary director’ Peter Brook

The theatre and film director has been remembered as a ‘giant of European theatre’.

The Independent UK

British theater, film director Peter Brook dies at age 97

British theater and film director Peter Brook has died at age 97

The Independent UK

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Peter Brook, influential theatre visionary, dies aged 97

The director’s landmark achievements include a nine-hour Mahabharata, putting Shakespeare on trapezes and directing Olivier, Gielgud and Scofield at the RSC

The Guardian - UK

The famous faces from film and TV to have come from the Everyman and Playhouse Youth Theatre

Many stars of stage, TV and film got their start at the Everyman and Playhouse

Liverpool Echo

Richard III review – Shakespeare’s supervillain breezes through the bloodbath

Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonArthur Hughes is the scheming sociopath in a production of magisterial stagecraft that builds to a powerful climax

The Guardian - UK

Muppet power! RSC uses puppet legends for My Neighbour Totoro extravaganza

The RSC’s version of the Japanese classic has smashed box office records – before the curtain’s even gone up. We meet the Jim Henson puppeteers bringing Studio Ghibli’s beloved fluffy monsters to life

The Guardian - UK

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Conservative faction’s earmark requests illustrate GOP divide

WASHINGTON — The Republican Study Committee, the traditional bastion of conservative thought within the House Republican Conference, has taken an official position on the practice of earmarking funds in spending bills for lawmakers’ districts: It’s opposed.

Tribune News Service

Conservative faction’s earmark requests illustrate GOP divide - Roll Call

The Republican Study Committee has taken an official position against earmarks, although more than half of their membership requested them.

Roll Call

House GOP welcomes a new Chamber, declares war against the old one

The country's largest lobbying group is now viewed with contempt by much of the GOP.

Axios

The best theatre to stream this month: Death of England, Grenfell and more

Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes political plays, an assortment from the Brighton fringe, an epic rehearsal at the RSC and a musical about a guide dog

The Guardian - UK

Stars of summer: Florence Shaw, Claire Rushbrook, Arthur Hughes and Patricia Allison

Some of the actors and musicians in the summer’s most exciting new shows, from Grace Jones’s Meltdown to a radical Richard III, give us a taste of what to expect

The Guardian - UK

Kochi Soccer League at Regional Sports Centre concludes

Players were selected from backward areas and football coaching included personality development training as well

The Hindu

David Tennant calms his stage fright … with chocolate

The Doctor Who star and classical actor reveals how he copes with ‘the horror of the terror’ of theatrical anxiety

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Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù’s year in TV: ‘I watched a few bad things where the women are just victims’

The RSC actor on his lockdown hit Gangs of London, his love of football, and his dislike of isms, schisms and phobias

Salon

Chemists want to mine e-waste for metals

We're leaving the fossil fuel era and entering an "age of metals" — and that may mean sifting through our trash

The Guardian - UK

Dennis Waterman obituary

The Guardian - UK

RSC to stage adaptation of animated fantasy film My Neighbour Totoro

Royal Shakespeare Company’s version of celebrated Studio Ghibli movie will be first opening ‘of this scale’ in nearly 40 years

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It’s time for the Royal Shakespeare Company to be led by an actor

Gregory Doran has achieved much at the RSC and directed some fine productions. Let’s have an actor in charge next: how about Adjoa Andoh or Simon Russell Beale?

The Guardian - UK

Wars of the Roses review – a little too much shock and awe

The RSC’s battery of technical effects evokes the chaos of warfare, but the characterisation gets lost in the tumult

The Guardian - UK

Henry VI: Rebellion / Wars of the Roses review – thrilling games of thrones

With their portrait of a wobbling monarchy and egotistical leadership, these rare stagings are particularly topical

Reason

In Threatening Disney Over Copyrights, House Republicans Are Right for the Wrong Reasons

By blaming their reasoning on culture war grievances rather than the best interests of the law, the GOP risks undermining a completely defensible position.

Benzinga

GOP Lawmakers Threaten Disney On Mickey Mouse's Copyright, Citing 'Political And Sexual Agenda'

Nearly two dozen members of the U.S.

The Guardian - UK

‘Experience Shakespeare by seeing it – even better, be in it’: inside the RSC’s new epic

Owen Horsley’s new production of Henry VI, Parts 2 and 3, uses a cast of 120, including professionals and community participants, with some of them filming the action on stage

The Hindu

Honour for MGU lecturer

Anilkumar Gopinathan, Professor, School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottyam, has been selected for fellowship by the U.K.-based Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). An statement by the varsity on Monday said the honour was in consideration of his contributions through both academic and research activities to enrich Chemistry as a…

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