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Joan of Arc to be made non-binary in new Globe production

The historical figure is known for leading the French in battles against English soldiers in the Hundred Years War

Evening Standard

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

The week in theatre: Patriots; The Tempest; King Lear

Tom Hollander excels in Peter Morgan’s incisive oligarch drama; Deborah Warner directs a fine Tempest; and Michelle Terry plays both the Fool and Cordelia to Kathryn Hunter’s Lear

The Guardian - UK

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King Lear review – Kathryn Hunter’s frail, fond old ruler almost unbearably affecting

Back in the role she first played in 1997, Hunter uses her extraordinary transformative powers to show us the king as a geriatric child at the head of a disintegrating nation

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?

The Guardian - UK

From The Merchant of Venice to Romeo and Juliet, how do we make Shakespeare less terrible in the 21st century?

Is it time to put The Merchant of Venice to bed? A new production at Shakespeare’s Globe is attempting to re-frame it instead

Evening Standard

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