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Sir Ian McKellen has pulled out of the UK tour of his new play as he continues to recover from a horror stage fall. The ‘The Lord of the Rings’ acting veteran, who turned 85 in May, was rushed to hospital on 17 June from the Noel Coward Theatre on London’s West End when he lost his footing in a fight scene while playing Shakespeare’s drunken raconteur John Falstaff in a production of ‘Player Kings’ and plunged from the stage into the audience. Despite reports soon after his fall he would rejoin the cast when the play goes on tour across Britain, Ian has now said he has been forced to withdraw ...
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Die Bewunderung für William Shakespeare ist auch 460 Jahre nach seiner Geburt noch groß, aber grenzenlos dann auch nicht. Shakespeares Werke haben die Jahrhunderte überdauert. In seinem Geburtsort trifft man Schulklassen, Literaturfans, Touristen und eine Anwohnerin, die das etwas abgeklärter sieht. Mit Shakespeare sei das so eine Sache, erzählt die Frau, die einen interessanten Vergleich findet. Mit Shakespeare sei es ein wenig wie mit Marmite, dem britischen Aufstrich, der nach Maggi schmeckt - «entweder man mag ihn oder nicht». Kaum ein Schriftsteller ist weltweit so bekannt. Auch auf deuts...
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“I defy you, stars" wrote The Bard in "Romeo and Juliet." Replace “stars” with “racists”, and you’ve got some idea where the producers of the forthcoming West End production of Shakespeare's romantic tragedy are at. The new production, billed as “a pulsating new vision of Shakespeare’s immortal tale of wordsmiths, rhymers, lovers and fighters,” has been the target of racist abuse - aimed at an unnamed cast member. The show’s full cast was announced last week, and upon revealing the players, the Jamie Lloyd Company said there had been a “barrage of deplorable racial abuse directed towards a mem...
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La producción de 'Romeo y Julieta' de Tom Holland llegará a Broadway a finales de este año.El actor de 27 años interpretará a Romeo en la representación de 12 semana de la tragedia de William Shakespeare en Londres a partir del próximo mes y la demanda de entrada ha sido tan abrumadora que el espectáculo cruzará el Atlántico como fanáticos de la estrella de Spider-Man clama al verlo pisar las tablas una vez más.Una fuente dijo a The Mirror:'-Romeo y Julieta- se dirigirá a Broadway después de su presentación en Londres, y los detalles se anunciarán a su debido tiempo. Si bien el director Jamie ...
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Tom Holland's 'Romeo and Juliet' production is heading to Broadway later this year. The 27-year-old actor is starring as Romeo in the 12-week run of William Shakespeare's tragedy in London from next month and the demand for tickets has been so overwhelming that the show is going to head across the Atlantic as fans of the 'Spider-Man' star clamour to see him tread the boards once again. A source told The Mirror: "'Romeo and Juliet' will head to Broadway after its London run, with details to be announced in due course. "While director Jamie Lloyd has made a name for himself for his minimalist ad...
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Dame Helen Mirren says she has made an “endless litany” of mistakes in her decades-long career. The Oscar-winner, 78, who got the acting bug after seeing a production of ‘Hamlet’ as a child, is laden with awards and was made a dame for services to drama in 2003. But she is quoted in the new issue My Weekly magazine saying about how she got to the top by trial and a lot of error: “I turned down projects I should have said yes tom doe projects I should have said no to, had relationships with people that I shouldn’t have had relationships with, got drunk at times that I shouldn’t have got drunk a...
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Geri Halliwell says being told her dad had died during an English class woke her up to her “mortality”. The 51-year-old singer’s father Laurence died from a heart attack in 1993, a year before Geri joined the Spice Girls and in a new interview she said she “ironically” learned of his death during a lesson William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ – which tells of the titular Prince of Denmark’s anguish when his uncle slaughters his father and marries his mother. Geri told the Sunday Times: “They pulled me out of the English class to say my father was dead, which was so ironic. “It suddenly woke me up to ...
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Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal are in talks to star in 'Hamnet'. The duo are set to join the cast of Chloe Zhao's adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's best-selling historical fiction novel. The tale imagines the story of Agnes – the wife of the world's most famous writer, William Shakespeare – as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son Hamnet. The story charts the emotional, familial and artistic consequences of the loss and brings to life a human and heart-stopping tale as the backdrop to the creation of Shakespeare's most famous play, 'Hamlet'. Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris an...
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Chloe Zhao is to direct 'Hamnet'. The Oscar-winning director will helm an adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's novel and is adapting the script alongside the author. The best-selling historical fictional novel imagines the story of Agnes – the wife of the world's most famous writer, William Shakespeare – as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son Hamnet. The story charts the emotional, familial and artistic consequences of the loss and brings to life a human and heart-stopping tale as the backdrop to the creation of Shakespeare's most famous play, 'Hamlet'. It is not known whe...
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A songwriting course based on the work of Taylor Swift is to be offered at the University of Texas at Austin. The 32-year-old pop star is thought to have solely written more than 50 songs since her childhood and now The Taylor Swift Songbook will be "read" alongside classics such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge at the North American university and will strive to "introduce literary critical reading and research methods-basic skills for work in English literature and other humanities disciplines" to students. A description on the university's website reads:...
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