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30 Years Ago, a Sci-Fi Train Wreck Changed the Course of Hollywood History

The very first movie to adapt a video game was such a disaster that it took three decades for Hollywood to get back on track. This is the story of 'Super Mario Bros' (1993).

Inverse

Grace Bumbry obituary

American opera star with a magnetic stage presence who was the first black singer at Bayreuth

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David Tennant will play Macbeth in Donmar Warehouse production in December

Scots star David Tennant has previously performed lead roles in Hamlet, Richard II and Romeo And Juliet.

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Cush Jumbo joins David Tennant in the Donmar Warehouse’s Macbeth in autumn 2023

Tennant and Jumbo previously acted together in Channel 4’s Deadwater Fell

Evening Standard

David Tennant to play Macbeth on stage for first time this winter

Actor will star in production at the Donmar Warehouse

The Independent UK

David Tennant to play Macbeth at Donmar Warehouse

The actor will take to the stage as the Scottish king in December, in the last production of the London theatre’s 30th-anniversary season

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King Charles: 71 facts about his long road to the throne

Everything you need to know about man who became heir to British throne 71 years ago

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Monday briefking: Everything you need to know about man who became heir to the throne 71 years ago

In today’s newsletter: Ahead of King Charles’s coronation, here’s everything you never knew about his life waiting for power

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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.

The Independent UK

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…

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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.

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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’

The Canberra Times

Five things to do this weekend

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

Daily Record

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.

The Guardian - UK

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

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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

Daily Mirror

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 Record

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.

Zenger

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.

The Guardian - UK

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.

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