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Bridgerton’s Adjoa Andoh to explore societal prejudices by playing Richard III

Bridgerton actor, who will also direct the production, says she wants to talk about ‘body pathologising’

The Guardian - UK

‘It has added political resonance this year’: why Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol still strikes a chord

Audiences can choose from a glut of Ebenezers this festive season, with the infamous miser a more pointed character than ever in these hard times

The Guardian - UK

Timothy O’Brien obituary

Stage designer who worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company, at the National Theatre in London and opera houses in the UK and abroad

The Guardian - UK

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The Week on Stage: From My Neighbour Totoro to Marvellous

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Independent UK

My Neighbour Totoro review – dazzling staging of the Studio Ghibli classic

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production has astonishing puppetry, magical music and huge emotional impact

The Guardian - UK

The RSC’s work in schools and communities isn’t ‘subordinate’

Letters: This activity by the Royal Shakespeare Company is equal and integral to everything that happens on a main stage, writes David Longford

The Guardian - UK

Hilary Mantel wrote me kind notes that I felt deliriously teased by

I met Hilary Mantel in 2013 in Clapham. She was working with the Royal Shakespeare Company to turn Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies into plays.

Evening Standard

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The Royal Shakespeare Company announces Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey as new artistic directors

The pair will take on the responsibilities from June 2023 following the resignation of Gregory Doran

The Independent UK

Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey are an inspired duo to lead the RSC

An immense task awaits the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new artistic directors who must attract top talent, prioritise verse-speaking and combine classic repertory and contemporary drama

The Guardian - UK

Royal Shakespeare Company announces new co-artistic directors for 2023

Erica Whyman is currently the acting artistic director following Gregory Doran stepping back from the role.

The Independent UK

Queen Elizabeth II: The London buildings and Tube stations opened during her 70-year reign

In her seven decades on the throne, the Queen opened over 100 buildings in the capital alone. Here are some of the highlights from each decade

Evening Standard

Charles’s Shakespearean tribute to the Queen

The King said his mother had been ‘a pattern to all princes living’.

The Independent UK

How to save money when you’re 60-plus

Claim deals in restaurants and pubs, in cinemas and theatres and when travelling by train or coach

The Guardian - UK

London arts venues closed due to Queen’s death

From galleries to theatres and museums – here’s how London’s artistic spaces are dealing with the passing of Her Majesty the Queen

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

Unfinish’d sympathy: can literature get over reading disability morally?

The ‘crookednesse’ of Richard III’s back was presented by Shakespeare as an expression of his villainy while Quasismodo embodied saintly unworldliness. Are we ready to see disability without symbolism?

Asharq Al-Awsat

Theater Legend Kani Turns Eye to Modern South Africa

When John Kani launched his acting career in the 1960s, the only stage he could find was an empty snake pit at a shuttered South African museum. His latest production, "Kunene and the King", opened with the Royal Shakespeare Company and played on London's West End. It's now resuming a…

Glasgow Live

Where are the cast of The High Life now?

Divorce, death, and Hollywood - the cast of the classic one season show The High Life have had different paths since Air Scotia landed their last flight.

Bangkok Post

Anime 'My Neighbor Totoro' to be adapted into stage play in Britain

TOKYO: Studio Ghibli's classic animation film "My Neighbor Totoro" will be adapted into a stage play at Britain's prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company from October, Nippon Television Network Corp, one of the collaborators, said on Wednesday.

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The Guardian - UK

RSC to stage adaptation of animated fantasy film My Neighbour Totoro

Royal Shakespeare Company’s version of celebrated Studio Ghibli movie will be first opening ‘of this scale’ in nearly 40 years

The Guardian - UK

It’s time for the Royal Shakespeare Company to be led by an actor

Gregory Doran has achieved much at the RSC and directed some fine productions. Let’s have an actor in charge next: how about Adjoa Andoh or Simon Russell Beale?

Nottingham Post

I’m alive but I’ve met some monsters - how Radford actor's mental health struggle led to Shakespeare

He is now performing for the Royal Shakespeare Company

Daily Record

Twitter users think 'Macbeth' curse caused Will Smith and Chris Rock Oscars slap

According to folklore, via the Royal Shakespeare Company, the tragedy was cursed from the very beginning, when a coven of witches opposed Shakespeare's use of real sorcery in the text.

The Guardian - UK

Our Friends in the North still depressingly relevant, says writer

Themes of corruption and attitudes to poverty still resonate today, says Peter Flannery ahead of new Radio 4 adaptation

Chronicle Live

Star Trek star in Newcastle 40 years ago - when Picard was still in the distant future

In March 1982, a time long before his television adventures is deepest space, the actor Patrick Stewart was in Newcastle with the Royal Shakespeare Company

Daily Mirror

Lucy Benjamin stuns fans as she ditches her bottle blonde locks for natural grey

The soap star is most famous for playing peroxide blonde schemer Lisa Fowler in EastEnders but she is now looking stunning and all natural as she prepares to take on roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company

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