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Harry Potter star coming to Liverpool this year in new show

The show will be performed in a warehouse in four cities

Liverpool Echo

Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma to star in Macbeth staged in warehouses

The production, directed by Simon Godwin, will open in Liverpool before heading to Edinburgh, London and Washington DC

The Guardian - UK

Ralph Fiennes to play Macbeth in tour of converted warehouses

He will be reunited with Indira Varma, who will play Lady Macbeth.

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What is the Stone of Destiny?

The first recorded use of the stone was in 1057, when Macbeth’s stepson Lulach was proclaimed king

Wales Online

Shakespeare's environmentalism: how his plays explore the same ecological issues we face today

Climate change, urban sprawl, air pollution, deforestation, depleted fish stocks, biodiversity and species loss: these are not exclusively modern problems that only sprang up in the last few hundred years. In fact, the common but misleading phrase “industrial revolution” masks the long history of resource extraction and ecological degradation in…

The Conversation

Shakespeare's First Folio turns 400: what would be lost without the collection? An expert speculates

It has been 400 years since the publication of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays, a volume now known as the First Folio. Prepared by his fellow actors after his death, the book presented 36 plays divided into the genres of comedy, history and tragedy.

The Conversation

Studies in Macbeth’s toxicity and queer readings in leading private school’s diversity drive

Alleyn’s School has overhauled its English curriculum to introduce a diverse range of authors and challenge ‘white-centric, patriarchal and cis-gender ideologies’

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Five things to do this weekend

There's music, drama and a peace walk happening.

The Canberra Times

The Scottish island abbey where the real-life Macbeth was laid to rest

The tiny island of Iona, just off the Isle of Mull on the West Coast of Scotland, is home to what is widely considered one of Scotland's most historic and sacred sites.

Daily Record

Alison Steadman: ‘We filmed the sex scene in the New Forest, so it was quite prickly’

The actor on working with Dennis Potter, channelling real life in Abigail’s Party and a groundbreaking lesbian snog

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: five stars for Guys & Dolls, plus Marjorie Prime and The Tragedy of Macbeth – review

The audience is swept along with the action in Nicholas Hytner’s thrillingly immersive new Guys and Dolls; Nancy Carroll and Anne Reid surf memory and identity; and Shakespeare’s witches multitask

The Guardian - UK

Inside Shakespeare castle where tragic woman 'without hands' haunts the passages

Cawdor Castle in Scotland is well known for its connection to the Shakespeare play Macbeth... but for paranormal enthusiasts, it is also haunted by a tragic woman without hands

Daily Mirror

A Scottish castle linked to Shakespeare is 'haunted' by a tragic woman without hands

If you are a Shakespeare fan, you will likely be aware of the connection between Macbeth and Cawdor Castle, but you may not know that the ghost of a young woman is said to haunt its halls.

Daily Record

The Inspiration Of William Shakespeare From Student Theatre And Shaping Of Academic Literature

Shakespeare used this to inspire some of his most famous characters such as Hamlet and Macbeth and how his work shaped literature.

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In brief: Lady MacBethad; Inshallah United; Moon Witch, Spider King – reviews

A distinctive reimagining of dark Scottish history; a thoughtful celebration of faith and football; and the second novel in Marlon James’s immense Dark Star trilogy

The Guardian - UK

Macbeth review – the lady vanishes in filmic gangland hybrid

Imitating the Dog’s exciting live action-video fusion, which sets the Scottish play in a modern-day crime syndicate, leaves Lady Macbeth out in the cold

The Conversation

Ambition, corruption and guerilla gardening: Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood is a horror story for our time

Almost every review to date mentions the brutal argument that closes the first section of Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood. In a novel filled with incident – disasters, chases, one very bad acid trip, general maleficence – it is telling that this scene lingers.

Chicago Tribune

My worst moment: Hope Davis and the enormous sweaty balls of sweater fuzz stuck to her underarms during an audition

There’s something Shakespearean about the character Hope Davis plays on the Showtime drama “Your Honor.” As the wife of a crime boss, “she’s a Lady Macbeth and she’s very frustrated with how her husband is executing things, so she gets her hands dirty,” said Davis. “It’s really delicious to play…

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A love of Shakespeare is one reason to accept an honour. What’s everyone else’s excuse?

Actors aside, only the foolhardy can now say yes to a gong in the debased era of Liz Truss and Boris Johnson

The National (Scotland)

Astonishing adaptation of Macbeth reimagines Shakespeare's 'Scottish play'

ZINNIE Harris is one of Scotland’s most accomplished playwrights.

The Guardian - UK

Eleanor Catton: ‘I felt so much doubt after winning the Booker’

In 2013, at 28, Eleanor Catton became the youngest ever Booker winner with The Luminaries. She talks about adapting the novel for screen, being shut out of her native New Zealand and why it has taken 10 years to write a follow-up

The Conversation

'Reade him, therefore; and againe, and againe'. It's the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio, a monumental project put together by his friends

Shakespeare’s First Folio – more accurately known as Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, Tragedies – was published 400 years ago this November.

Newsroom.co.nz

Eleanor Catton, by Rachael King

The new Catton: "a great book"

Inverse

You need to play the best time-loop game on Steam ASAP

A time-loop retelling of one of Shakespeare's most famous plays, this indie game is a must-play adventure.

The National (Scotland)

Nicole Cooper: 10 things that changed my life

AWARD-WINNING actor Nicole Cooper tells Mark Brown about 10 things that changed her life...

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