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‘People say I’m pouring Coca-Cola into fine malt whisky’: why is the National Theatre shaking up Sophocles?

In a bold new production starring Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss, the NT is fusing Sophocles and Ingmar Bergman. So what can two stories written 23 centuries apart tell us about how we live today?

The Guardian - UK

The Oresteia review – this body-shaking, blood-soaked opera is exhilaratingly wild

Six singers put not only their vocal cords but their bodies on the line in a physically demanding performance of Liza Lim’s aurally challenging opera

The Guardian - AU

The Oresteia review – Simon Stone’s patchwork tragedy is a gripping and exasperating epic

Mary-Louise Parker gives a powerhouse performance in a three-part drama that cuts up Aeschylus’s chronology and adds shades of other plays

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The Oresteia at the Bridge: Thrillingly stripped back and bloody Greek tragedy

5/5 Simon Stone’s adaptation is a stunningly modernised take on Aeschylus’ devastating family drama

Evening Standard

Trafalgar Entertainment acquires Nicholas Hytner’s Bridge theatre

London Theatre Company founded in 2017 by Hytner and former National Theatre colleague Nick Starr has been sold to company that owns 20-plus venues in UK and abroad

The Guardian - UK

Manchester United set to beat Arsenal in race for relegated star

Manchester United are reportedly close to sealing the deal for the Premier League midfielder

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Vilma Jää Brings herding calls and mocking songs to Met Opera’s production of 'Innocence'

Vilma Jää never expected to play a major role in one of the 21st century’s most acclaimed operas when she enrolled at the Sibelius Academy to study folk music

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Simon Stone on luring film stars on stage, family tragedy and staging Chekhov in Korean: ‘It’s one of the proudest moments in my career’

Directing the likes of Alicia Vikander, Andrew Scott and Olivia Colman on stage, the Australian director is returning to Adelaide festival with a bold new take on The Cherry Orchard

The Guardian - AU

Andrew Scott and Olivia Colman cast in Elsinore

Andrew Scott and Olivia Colman are to lead the cast of Elsinore, a film about the late Chariots of Fire star Ian Charleson.

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Colin Friels: ‘We’re only here for a very brief time, so you may as well enjoy the living daylights out of it’

The beloved actor on elusive retirement, sharing the stage with his daughter, and the secret to a long and strong marriage

The Guardian - AU

Covent Garden property which inspired Harry Potter's famous wand shop for sale for £2 million

1 Goodwin’s Court was purchased by its current owner in 2013, and has been the subject of a ‘painstaking’ revival project

Evening Standard

Star Trek actor Chris Pine to make London theatre debut in Chekhov play

The US star will appear in Ivanov at The Bridge theatre next year.

Evening Standard

Star Trek actor Chris Pine to make London stage debut in Simon Stone’s Ivanov

The Star Trek and Wonder Woman actor will lead a modern reimagining of the Chekhov classic at the Bridge Theatre, directed by acclaimed playwright Simon Stone

Evening Standard

Star Trek’s Chris Pine to make London theatre debut in Ivanov next summer

The Hollywood actor will star in a new version of the Chekhov classic by writer-director Simon Stone at the Bridge theatre from July

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Cinemablend

The Woman In Cabin 10 Makes One Big Change From The Book. Why It Went There, And What The Author Thinks About It

"I think there was an opportunity..."

Cinemablend

Think Filming A Movie On A Yacht Sounds Delightful? Keira Knightley Got Real About What It's Really Like: ‘I Have PTSD’

"I mean, it was intense."

Inverse

Netflix Is Quietly Releasing An Intriguing Keira Knightley Psychological Thriller

'The Woman in Cabin 10' has shades of Agatha Christie and 'Knives Out.' But does it live up to its premise?

Evening Standard

Notting Hill house narrower than a London Tube carriage for sale for £1.2 million

The property, on Peel Street, was built in the gap between its two neighbouring houses in the 1930s

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Sports Illustrated

How and Why Alvaro Carreras Never Played for Man Utd

The Spaniard’s career has come full circle in a whirlwind five years.

The Conversation

The Lady from the Sea: a fierce play that shies from the wonderful unknowability of Henrik Ibsen’s original

Henrik Ibsen’s 19th-century play about a woman caught between a stormy past and respectable present has been reimagined for the 21st century in a new production at the Bridge Theatre, London.

The Guardian - UK

The Lady from the Sea review – Andrew Lincoln and Alicia Vikander make waves in magnificent rewrite

Ibsen’s mysticism and mermaids are thrown out as director Simon Stone amps up the 1888 play’s psychological intensity with his eco-focused update

Evening Standard

Alicia Vikander: "I'm rehearsing my play with an AI Andrew Lincoln!"

The Oscar-winning actor is making her theatre debut in a new version of Ibsen at the Bridge. It’s still a work in progress — and she’s freaking out

Evening Standard

Alicia Vikander rehearsed with 'AI Andrew Lincoln' before West End debut

The Ex Machina star admitted she used an AI version of her co-star to prepare for her role in The Lady from the Sea

The Guardian - UK

‘It will be frightening but you have to do it’: Andrew Lincoln and Alicia Vikander’s nerve-shredding stage return

Can two world-famous actors and auteur Simon Stone bring 19th-century Norway screaming into the modern world? They talk mean directors, bathtub revelations and reinventing Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea

Evening Standard

FIRST LOOK: Keira Knightley just blew Netflix’s Black Doves out of the Water - literally

Trapped on a $150 Million Yacht, Keira Knightley delivers a gripping, gaslight-fueled Thriller that might just sink Netflix’s other Spy Drama.

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