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From Hamlet at the Globe to Keir Starmer on SNL UK: the anarchic rise of George Fouracres

After years of skits and Shakespeare, the Black Country performer has found his biggest audience yet on Saturday Night Live UK. Phil Wang and others hail his ‘pure comedic instinct’

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The Merry Wives of Windsor review – Shakespeare’s script is the weakest bit of this joyous revel

Falstaff’s corpulent roisterings are energetically played in Sean Holmes’ summery staging but the homely comedy comes laden with innuendo and xenophobia

The Guardian - UK

The Merry Wives of Windsor at Shakespeare’s Globe: rare London revival is a treat

4/5 Led by George Fouracres at Falstaff this is full of zest

Evening Standard

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Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe review: why is it set in the Wild West?

3/5 Lola Shalam is strident, standout Juliet - but the production could do without those massive white hats and all that shouting

Evening Standard

Romeo and Juliet review – star-crossed lovers transported to the wild west

Director Sean Holmes’s high concept production shows that the frontier works surprisingly well as Shakespeare’s fractious Verona

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Much Ado About Nothing; Kiss Me, Kate – review

Shakespeare’s Globe; Barbican, London The possibility of pleasure is everywhere in Sean Holmes’s summer crowd-pleaser, while Adrian Dunbar tackles his first musical role in Cole Porter’s take on the bard’s least appealing play

The Guardian - UK

Much Ado About Nothing review – frothy fun to please the purists

There’s no whiff of stuffiness in a Sean Holmes production characterised by warm summer euphoria, Elizabethan-era magic and entrancing music

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Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe review: this sunkissed production is joyful and intelligent

Amalia Vitale and Ekow Quartey are arch and spirited as the central, wittily unwilling lovers

Evening Standard

‘I loved every single word’: tributes to the blistering brilliance of Edward Bond

Marianne Faithfull, Simon Callow, Tanya Moodie, Richard McCabe and Sean Holmes remember working with the remarkable British playwright who died on Sunday

The Guardian - UK

The Comedy of Errors review – full of wit and pizazz

Amped-up visual gags and a cast that brings its own distinctive comic gifts to the Bard’s dialogue ensure a contemporary feel to the classic comedy

The Guardian - UK

The Comedy of Errors at Shakespeare’s Globe review – daft, bawdy and boisterous with magnificent codpieces

Amid all the nonsense, you find yourself falling for the idiots in one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays

Evening Standard

The Winter’s Tale review: jarring Shakespeare's Globe production lacks warmth

The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s great “hospitality plays” – a tragicomedy about what goes wrong when a guest outstays their welcome.

The Conversation

The Winter’s Tale review – the Globe’s two-venue telling loses its way

As this ambitious production switches between stages, and deaths pile up like dishes, neither the comedy nor the tragedy have room to breathe

The Guardian - UK

Review: Bugsy Malone at Manchester Opera House

Will director Sean Holmes' first-time touring production hit the spot with the Manchester Opera House crowd or leave them feeling tempted to fling a custard pie themselves?

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Teen filmed as he allowed dog to poo on drive told 'come and get it'

The landlord posted the footage on Facebook after it was captured on CCTV

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To be or not to be cancelled: how directors deal with Shakespeare’s problematic side

Misogynist gags? Ancient puns? Unethical bed tricks? Theatre-makers discuss how they tackle the Bard’s trickier works

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The best theatre to stream this month: Beckett batting, Henry VI and a South African dance-off

Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes an intelligent political drama, a reimagined As You like It and a play about Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter’s passion for cricket

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Closer, The Tempest, The Darkest Part of the Night – review

Patrick Marber’s four-way passion play still adds up; Sean Holmes takes enjoyable liberties with his party island Tempest; and the heartfelt vies with the spelled out in Zodwa Nyoni’s new work

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The Tempest review – the bard in budgie smugglers

Sean Holmes’s gleefully comic take is a riot of holiday colour and fun, featuring luminous lilos, stag do bantz and a playful Prospero in eyewateringly tight trunks

The Guardian - UK

Bugsy Malone review – splurge guns at the ready for a twinkling revival

With charismatic performances and playful effects, Sean Holmes’ slick touring production is escapist fun

The Guardian - UK

Hamlet review – an indie prince of infinite jest but little tragedy

Although Sean Holmes’s production has some nice touches, it fails to plumb the play’s existential depths and lacks emotional intensity

Evening Standard

Hamlet review: brummie Hamlet gets lost in sea of wild concepts

Sean Holmes chucks songs by The Smiths and speeches from Romeo and Juliet into this baggy production

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