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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 · Jul 10, 2025

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 · Jul 10, 2025

Back to Back Theatre tackles an epic Shakespearian conflict – set in a factory, with cardboard props

Back to Back Theatre is one of Australia’s national treasures. Over 30 years this dynamic Geelong-based company – an ensemble of actors who are perceived to have intellectual disabilities – has built a dynamic body of innovative work renowned for its formal experimentation.

The Conversation · Jul 4, 2025

Inflexible autocrat, unchecked power – Coriolanus is ‘never not timely’. So why is this Shakespeare play so rarely staged?

The bruising exploration of politics, power and civic identity plays out in front of an audience split into two sides for Bell Shakespeare’s take

The Guardian - AU · Jun 20, 2025

Edinburgh festival 2025: 20 theatre shows to see this summer

Peter Pan has a pop fantasy, Faustus is in Africa, Brian Cox leads a banking satire and Billy Connolly meets the late Alasdair Gray. Elsewhere, the joy of pickling, a landmark jazz album and Elton John’s libel case take centre stage

The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2025

Top London private school shakes up English curriculum with drag queen memoir and non-binary writers

Staff at Alleyn’s School in Dulwich say the authors were introduced as part of a ‘genuine diversification’ of the curriculum

Evening Standard · Jun 18, 2025

Funny, weird … sexy? How to find your perfect wedding poem

Small, huge, camp, Star Trek-themed … weddings have changed beyond recognition, but we’re still reading out the same old Shakespeare sonnets. What to read at a modern ceremony? Plus, leading poets pick their favourites

The Guardian - UK · Jun 14, 2025

Ngũgi wa Thiong’o and the African literary revolution

The passing of celebrated Kenyan writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on 28 May 2025 marks the end of a remarkable period in African literary history – the fabulous decades in the second half of the 20th century when African writers came to command the world stage.

The Conversation · Jun 12, 2025

Jim Royle’s take on Tracey Emin ‘masterpiece’

Brief letters: Art review | ‘Worser’ in Shakespeare | Youth hostelling | Driverless taxis | Egregious Americanism | Outage outrage

The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2025

Juliet and Romeo strains to be meaningful but never earns its emotional crescendos

The new musical film Juliet and Romeo arrives on screen with lavish visuals, saccharine pop songs and a reworked Shakespearean plot that tries to dazzle. With its vivid colour palette and dreamy masquerade aesthetic, this is Verona as filtered through a Eurovision lens: glittering, melodramatic and frequently overwrought.

The Conversation · Jun 10, 2025