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‘It was a real trauma’: the TS Eliot poetry prize winner on his turbulent upbringing

He grew up in Jamaica, thinking his grandmother was his mother, learning how to read from a blackboard on her veranda. What does Jason Allen-Paisant plan to do now? Fly to Ethiopia to meet his father for the first time

The Guardian - UK

Australian theatre companies are shunning Shakespeare. A much-needed break, or a mistake?

A decade ago, William Shakespeare was the most performed playwright in Australia. In 2024 not one mainstage theatre company in Australia will perform Shakespeare. The only exception will be Bell Shakespeare.

The Conversation

Othello review – three-headed Iago distracts from tragedy

Depicting the insinuating villain as a trio of manipulators is striking and gives the drama thrillerish momentum, but intimacy is lost

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Michael Sheen says he finds it ‘hard to accept’ non-Welsh actors playing Welsh roles

Actor is the latest actor to weigh in on the long-running authenticity debate

The Independent UK

Richard Dreyfuss says new Oscar diversity rules ‘make me vomit’

‘Jaws’ star also defended Laurence Olivier’s use of blackface

The Independent UK

Rare copy of Othello shows a cast list involved in real-life murder drama

A 1655 edition of Shakespeare’s tragedy names members of an acting troupe, one of whom was slain in an eerie echo of the play

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