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Royal Shakespeare Company

August 2024

  • Romola Garai in the years

    The week in theatre: The Years; Pericles – review

  • Should have his pick of kings and princes … Alfred Enoch as Pericles at the Swan theatre.

    Pericles review – Alfred Enoch rules the stage in a neglected Shakespeare

July 2024

  • crop of a portrait of Paapa Esseidu wearing a sky blue jacket and holding a long-stemmed white rose

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Paapa Essiedu: ‘Is this part harder than Hamlet? Yeah, it’s different gravy, mate’

    The actor on his challenging new West End role, sweating profusely on stage, and why he almost became a doctor
  • As You Like It

    As You Like It review – the RSC’s garden party is altogether too ordinary

    Gender games, rebirth and affection remain in this 80-minute slash of the Shakespeare romcom, which is stylish but short on invention
    • The School for Scandal review – a triumph of style over substance

    • The School for Scandal review – gen Z glow up is all style and no snap

    • No rest for the wicked: The School for Scandal at the RSC – in pictures

June 2024

  • James Corden and Anna Maxwell Martin in The Constituent at the Old Vic

    The week in theatre: The Constituent; Kyoto; Mean Girls – review

    James Corden and Anna Maxwell Martin struggle for urgency in Joe Penhall’s drama about a threatened female MP; climate crisis talks are turned into a whirligig show; and Tina Fey’s musical of the 2004 film is pink and perky
  • Stephen Kunken (Don Pearlman) in Kyoto.

    Kyoto review – 1997 protocol on climate crisis fuels gripping theatre at the RSC

    Stephen Kunken’s Republican ringmaster narrates this gripping account of the negotiation of the first international treaty on tackling climate change
    • ‘We want the audience to feel there is hope’: how to write a play about the climate crisis, by the team behind The Jungle and Little Amal

    • The Merry Wives of Windsor review – belting revenge comedy in modern middle England

    • ‘The war was not going to stop me’: amateur Ukrainian actors stage King Lear in UK

May 2024

  • Lucy Tregear as Meg Page, Richard Cordery as Sir John Falstaff and Claire Carrie as Alice Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Old Vic, London, in 2003.

    Need proof who wrote Shakespeare’s plays? See The Merry Wives of Windsor

  • a stage set with a woman and a man throw a ball in a classroom while another woman looks on

    English review – acclaimed Iran-set classroom drama is a bit too well-behaved

  • Ian Gelder in season 6 of Game of Thrones.

    Ian Gelder obituary

  • A slice of life … English.

    English review – Pulitzer-winning classroom play doesn’t quite make the grade

  • The week in theatre: The Buddha of Suburbia; Love’s Labour’s Lost – review

  • The Buddha of Suburbia review – playful spin through Hanif Kureishi’s novel

April 2024

  • ‘We were in castles, on horses – and up to our necks in a bog!’ … Hughes as Shardlake.

    ‘I know what it’s like to be stared at’: Shardlake star Arthur Hughes on playing CJ Sansom’s disabled Tudor sleuth

  • still image from stage performance of My Neighbour Totoro: a small girl in a pink dress is seen in the centre of a mythical forest with trees curving around her, lit in green, blue and purple

    Studio Ghibli’s work ‘like Shakespeare’, says My Neighbour Totoro stage show’s director

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