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The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced a Her Story-like game where you hack into Lady MacBeth's computer

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‘Her face is a marvel!’: Vanessa Redgrave’s 20 best films – ranked!

With an oeuvre ranging from swooning Merchant Ivory serenity to bravura blasphemy, we rate the acting dynasty doyenne’s finest films as she approaches her 88th birthday

The Guardian - UK

Royal Shakespeare Company reimagines Macbeth for video game users

The game is currently in development and slated for release later this year.

Evening Standard

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Claire van Kampen obituary

Composer, playwright and theatre director who often worked with her husband, the actor Mark Rylance

The Guardian - UK

Things to do in London this weekend, from Billie Eilish to Bill Bailey

Mike Daw returns with his pick of the best things to see, do and hear this weekend

Evening Standard

Charles Kay obituary

Stalwart supporting actor who appeared at the RSC and the National, and on TV in I, Claudius and Fortunes of War

The Guardian - UK

Cost to clean up toxic PFAS pollution could top £1.6tn in UK and Europe

Exclusive: Costs of UK cleanup will reach £9.9bn a year in UK if emissions of ‘forever chemicals’ remain uncontrolled

The Guardian - UK

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Royal Shakespeare Company to look at AI and immersive technology in theatre

The RSC has previously used motion capture technology in a performance of Dream

The Independent UK

The week in theatre: The Red Shoes; Wolves on Road – review

The shoes do the talking, eventually, in the RSC’s handsome yet overpolite take on Andersen’s grisly fairytale

The Guardian - UK

Emily Richard obituary

Actor who toured with the RSC, played Tess of the d’Urbervilles on radio and starred in Lorna Doone on television

The Guardian - UK

Timothy West obituary

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: The Forsyte Saga, Parts 1 and 2; Othello – review

Over five hours, John Galsworthy’s family epic unfolds with intimate clarity on an almost bare stage. At the RSC, Emilia and Desdemona steal the show

The Guardian - UK

Why Are Thailand's Roads So Deadly?

A horrifying fire on a Thai school bus this week that killed at least 23 people, most of them children, underscores how the kingdom's roads are some of the deadliest in the world.

International Business Times

Barbara Leigh-Hunt obituary

Highly expressive actor of impeccable technique that could encompass high comedy and full-blown tragedy

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‘It’s like Game of Thrones!’ The return of India’s ancient superhero fantasy epic

In the 1980s, Peter Brook’s adaptation of The Mahabharata enchanted audiences on stage and screen. As Brook’s son presents a restored print at the Venice film festival, he and his team discuss the work’s extraordinary journey

The Guardian - UK

‘A 70-year-old skipping about pretending to be 20’: the new era of age-blind casting

Though Ian McKellen gave his Hamlet at the age of 82, older women rarely get the chance to play young characters. But with Imelda Staunton in Hello Dolly and Geraldine James as Rosalind, are things finally changing?

The Guardian - UK

Pericles review – Alfred Enoch rules the stage in a neglected Shakespeare

Tamara Harvey’s first production as the Royal Shakespeare Company’s co-artistic director highlights the play’s sharp political intelligence

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As You Like It review – the RSC’s garden party is altogether too ordinary

Gender games, rebirth and affection remain in this 80-minute slash of the Shakespeare romcom, which is stylish but short on invention

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The week in theatre: The Constituent; Kyoto; Mean Girls – review

James Corden and Anna Maxwell Martin struggle for urgency in Joe Penhall’s drama about a threatened female MP; climate crisis talks are turned into a whirligig show; and Tina Fey’s musical of the 2004 film is pink and perky

The Guardian - UK

Kyoto review – 1997 protocol on climate crisis fuels gripping theatre at the RSC

Stephen Kunken’s Republican ringmaster narrates this gripping account of the negotiation of the first international treaty on tackling climate change

The Guardian - UK

‘The war was not going to stop me’: amateur Ukrainian actors stage King Lear in UK

Company performing Shakespeare classic formed of 15 members who moved to small Uzhhorod town during war

The Guardian - UK

William Russell obituary

Stage and screen actor who was part of the original cast of Doctor Who

Marie Claire

Here's why The School for Scandal (at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre) is on our must-watch list

The RSC is taking The School for Scandal to new heights with a lavish production at their Stratford theatre

The Guardian - UK

James Laurenson obituary

Authoritative stage actor who excelled at playing baddies, and took roles in TV shows such as The Crown and Coronation Street

The Guardian - UK

Need proof who wrote Shakespeare’s plays? See The Merry Wives of Windsor

Set for revival at the RSC, this perfectly structured revenge comedy has an earthy vitality that no aristo or scholar could have created

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