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Review: Morte d'Arthur

The RSC’s Morte d’Arthur is a re-telling of the epic legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. The tale of Arthur is a familiar one, from Thomas Malory’s Morte d’Arthur to Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, to Monty Python with the Holy Grail and Spamalot.
Posted By Lucy Howard
 

Feature: Old Age Creativity

An 82-year-old grandmother from Anglesey has been in the news this week for securing a three-book publishing deal. Myrrha Stanford-Smith’s novel, The Great Lie, is the first of a trilogy which fictionally explores the rivalry between Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.
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Review: Antony and Cleopatra

Politics, love and jealousy. Battles of both land and heart. This is classic Shakespeare, albeit not one of his best-loved plays. Following a mishap in a technical rehearsal, Antony (Darrell D’Silva) has played the first few performances of the show with one of his arms in a sling, forcing changes to be made to a number of scenes to adapt around his injury. D’Silva, in the spirit of his chara..
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