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Seats in a private box are promised to the first theatregoers who turn up in fishing gear – or as fish – at the Oscar-winning actor’s latest West End show
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Robert Lepage’s wry and haunting 1991 piece about various brands of addiction was inspired by two great artists, and it lives up to their brilliance
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‘Meeting Noma was like meeting my older self,’ says the actor after seeing JK Rowling’s stage play in London’s West End
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Watch a theatrical staging of Ken Loach’s drama, followed by a panel discussion about homelessness, filmed at the Barbican in London
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Her debut, Wink, looked at modern masculinity. Now Phoebe Eclair-Powell is celebrating womanhood with her play-cum-gig Torch
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Hare’s condemnatory 2004 drama feels positively Shakespearean in its account of the tragic consequences of our leaders’ personal ambitions
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Performed by Belgian teenagers, The Hamilton Complex forces us to adjust our worldview. In the UK, adult anxieties are stifling children’s cultural experience
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Let's not flatter politicians with Shakespearean comparisons
Michael BillingtonIn exposing our leaders’ fallibility, it’s natural to invoke Shakespeare but that crowns them with borrowed grandeur. A better reference point would be Dryden’s brand of mock-heroic satire -
The whistleblower will appear via video in play partly inspired by Snowden’s revelations that the NSA was conducting mass surveillance on US citizens
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Camille O’Sullivan plays Constance in King John, who laments the loss of her son, Arthur, but disputes the suggestion that she has gone mad
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Adrian Lester performs Hamlet’s soliloquy in which the prince considers taking his own life
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Jaques’s speech about the seven ages of man from As You Like It is performed by Zawe Ashton
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Joanna Vanderham performs Juliet’s speech from the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet
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Riz Ahmed speaks Edmund’s soliloquy from King Lear, in which Edmund reflects upon being an illegitimate son and plots against his half-brother, Edgar
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Samuel West speaks Henry V’s soliloquy on the night before battle, in which he reflects upon the public’s expectations of the king
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This summer Sadler’s Wells stages a season of Cuban dance. Sarah Crompton travels to the island to talk to returning hero Carlos Acosta about setting up a new company in a society on the verge of radical change
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From Catch-22 to his cousins, the standup reveals the things that make him chortle the most
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She advised Ed Miliband and wrote gags for Harriet Harman. Now Ayesha Hazarika is turning her heady Whitehall days into standup
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The Hollywood star says she’ll turn on Kettering’s Christmas lights. When she’s in town, she should check out our mummified cat and smell the Weetabix
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The comedian relives her teenage years as a fervent evangelical Christian in her new show. As she prepares for the Edinburgh festival, she talks about preaching in shopping centres and comic resurrection
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The pilots of the first world war had a life expectancy of 11 days. Geraldine Pilgrim is telling their story – with the help of a croquet club and a homing pigeon society
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Turner prize-winning artist creates ‘human memorial’ of first world war battle, sending silent soldiers into cities and towns
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Leading figures from the arts – including Lucy Prebble, Anish Kapoor, Ivo van Hove and Barrie Rutter – reveal their shock, anger and revulsion at the leave vote
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When he played Bolingbroke in a 1960s Prospect production, West discovered a play divided between his character and the king
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7 July 1980: It is the first time that the union’s fighting fund for the theatre has been used to save a West End show from closure
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The words of a treasured letter ring in Miranda’s ears as she explores her island home in this re-imagining of The Tempest, written and directed by Teresa Griffiths and narrated by Anne-Marie Duff
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This is England star Vicky McClure is possessed by evil in this nightmarish manga take on Macbeth, the fourth of the British Council’s films for Shakespeare Lives 2016, a global programme celebrating William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death
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It’s a glorious summer of Richard IIIs with Ralph Fiennes playing the role at the Almeida in London and Lars Eidinger starring in the Schaubühne’s production at the Edinburgh festival. Here are some of the many actors who have tackled Shakespeare’s villain
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The Hamilton Complex explores our attitudes towards girls on the cusp of adulthood and uses adolescence as a metaphor for society’s uncertainty
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