The date, projected behind the stage before a word is spoken, is a clue - 14th April 1912. “Why so specific?” was my first ...

EXCLUSIVE: Luke Thallon is in good company when it comes to playing Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Mark Rylance, ...

Hilary Mantel “falsified” history in her Wolf Hall novels, a historian has claimed. Eamon Duffy, a professor of the history ...

Dialogue is punctuated by stop-start bursts of language, there are involuntary vocal and body tics, manic laughter and many ...

The rising star makes his Shakespearean debut in Stratford-upon-Avon, but does Rupert Goold's ocean-liner interpretation of ...

Set at sea, Rupert Goold’s conceptually bold production ultimately works because of Thallon’s thrillingly commanding ...

Considering the plot is inescapably engraved in theatrical history, and everyone knows how it goes and what occurs, I’ve no ...

Shakespeare’s tragedy becomes a tense psychological thriller in Rupert Goold’s production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon ...

The time is out of joint, cries Hamlet. Dawning on him is the reality of crisis – political, personal, existential. ​ And ...

With further planned festival appearances from Dame Sheila Hancock (Carry On Cleo, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) and Anton Lesser (Game of Thrones, Wolf Hall), as well as sessions with a raft of ...

Henry is also taking a liking to Cromwell, even summoning him to his bedside after having a distressing dream — and afterward ...