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For trauma survivors like us, theatre trigger warnings are not a luxury

Letters: Readers reflect on the deep impact that some scenes on stage can have on their mental health

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2024

We go to the theatre to feel something – and people do. Trigger warnings don’t stop that

This recurring debate is a pointless skirmish in a culture war, says Arifa Akbar, chief theatre critic for the Guardian

The Guardian - UK · Feb 22, 2024

Matt Smith on theatre trigger warning debate: ‘Isn’t art meant to be dangerous?’

The Doctor Who actor is currently starring in West End play An Enemy Of The People

Evening Standard · Feb 20, 2024

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OPINION - There’s a lot to be said for monarchy — but just think what we ask from the royals

The older and more frightened I get, the more tolerant I am of monarchy. As the political space becomes more polarised and violent, I see the benefits of letting a disinterested figurehead too rich to be bribed be at the centre of that space: to prevent something more malevolent occupying…

Evening Standard · Feb 12, 2024

Scrap trigger warnings for theatre audiences, says Ralph Fiennes

Audiences should be ‘shocked and disturbed’ by the impact of theatre, says Schindler’s List and Harry Potter actor

The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2024

Ralph Fiennes calls for trigger warnings to be scrapped as theatre should 'shock and disturb audiences'

The 61-year-old British actor has been nominated for two Oscars and won a Tony award for his theatre work.

Evening Standard · Feb 11, 2024

The 32 greatest '90s actors

As America logged online, these were the greatest actors who blew up the big screen

Total Film · Jan 26, 2024

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And the Oscar nomination doesn’t go to … 20 great performances snubbed by the Academy

Ahead of the release of year’s nominations later today, here are the best acting turns not even shortlisted for an Academy Award this century

The Guardian - UK · Jan 23, 2024

32 Great Acting Performances That Didn't Win An Oscar

Some of the greatest acting performances of all time didn't end with an Oscar win. Here are 32 examples...

Cinemablend · Jan 16, 2024

The pet I’ll never forget: Margaret Cho on Ralph the dog, ‘truly the love of my life’

The vet didn’t think Ralph would survive, but I took him from the animal shelter and nursed him to health. We became constant companions

The Guardian - UK · Jan 1, 2024

Sound and fury, signifying something: what made Macbeth so popular in 2023?

Ralph Fiennes and David Tennant are among the stars playing Shakespeare’s Thane this year. Might the tragedy’s current popularity have something to do with the Tory government?

The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2023

Ralph Fiennes reveals he gets stage fright... when he’s off stage

The veteran Shakespeare performer was left struggling to remember his lines during a daylight monologue outside his beloved theatre ‘cocoon’

The Independent UK · Dec 14, 2023

The week in theatre: Macbeth; The House of Bernarda Alba – review

Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma are magnetic murderers in Simon Godwin’s bleakly immersive warehouse production, while Harriet Walter commands the stage in Rebecca Frecknall’s stylish, if underheated Lorca

The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2023

Macbeth at the Depot, Liverpool review: the marketing of this Ralph Fiennes vehicle is the masterpiece here

Fiennes and Indira Varma have an easy chemistry but apart from the design and locations, this is a standard Scottish play

Evening Standard · Nov 30, 2023

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The Guardian - UK · Nov 30, 2023

Macbeth review – Ralph Fiennes’ monstrous monarch wages war in a warehouse

Staged in a hangar-like venue strewn with the charred remnants of battle, Simon Godwin’s intelligent production puts violent conflict to the fore

The Conversation · Oct 15, 2023

Roald Dahl was a bigot and beloved children’s author. Wes Anderson shows both sides of this complicated persona

Wes Anderson’s latest work involves four short films based on Roald Dahl stories: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, The Swan, The Rat Catcher and Poison.

The Guardian - UK · Oct 5, 2023

Susan Sarandon’s 20 best performances – ranked!

She may, by her own admission, have played ‘a lot of mothers’, but as the actor turns 77, we celebrate more memorable roles, from maverick lawyers and grown-up groupies to campaigning nuns and supernatural cellists

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2023

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar review – Wes Anderson and Roald Dahl are a perfect fit

Ralph Fiennes and Benedict Cumberbatch star in the director’s lovingly detailed short film based on Dahl’s tale of a man who can see through objects

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The Guardian - UK · Sep 27, 2023

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar review – Wes Anderson’s star-stuffed Roald Dahl yarn

At just 37 minutes, Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ben Kingsley, Dev Patel and Richard Ayoade never get beyond the two-dimensional

The Independent UK · Sep 27, 2023

The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar review: Wes Anderson’s Netflix debut is pure loveliness

The Oscar-winner has teamed with Netflix in a marriage of convenience to adapt four Roald Dahl stories debuting over four days this week – and the first is an ideal companion to his recent feature films

Evening Standard · Sep 25, 2023

OPINION - Wes Anderson is the most overrated and self-satisfied director

Anderson’s tics of stars playing two-dimensional oddballs, doll’s house design, and a confected mournfulness create work that feels superficially deep, and deeply superficial

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2023

Gen V to The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar: the seven best shows to stream this week

The wildly irreverent spin-off of The Boys takes aim at the high-school drama, and Wes Anderson works his quirky magic with Roald Dahl’s beloved tale starring Benedict Cumberbatch

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2023

The 20 best films about doomed love – ranked!

As Past Lives, a tale of lost love and roads not taken, hits cinemas, get out the tissues as we recall some of cinema’s most heart-wrenching, tortuous romances

The Independent UK · Aug 28, 2023

What to stream this week: Indiana Jones, 'One Piece,' 'The Menu' and tunes from NCT and Icona Pop

This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from the 20-member K-pop super group NCT, ”Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” swings into streaming

The Guardian - UK · Aug 27, 2023

30 autumn arts highlights, chosen by Observer critics

From Scorsese and Madonna to a Philip Guston retrospective, a Maria Callas tribute and Armando Iannucci’s play on Tory chaos, our writers pick the best things to see this autumn

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