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Michael Billington

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6 days ago

King Lear is a masterpiece – as told by Akira Kurosawa rather than Shakespeare | Michael Billington

The tragedy’s mythic quality appeals to adapters the world over but the Japanese film-maker’s Ran, now rereleased, manages to solve the play’s problems

I have long had mixed feelings about King Lear. …

5 months ago

‘A nice little cameo that Judi Dench hasn’t got her paws on’: Joan Plowright’s screen career blossomed with age | Peter Bradshaw

Her film breakthrough in 1960’s The Entertainer was a harbinger of the calmness and strength she brought as a distinguished character actor – and as her lovable self in Nothing Like a Dame

  • Joan Plowri…

Joan Plowright, celebrated star of stage and screen, dies aged 95

Actor helped shape British postwar theatre through her performances at the Royal Court, National Theatre and in the West End

• Michael Billington: Plowright was a dynamic force
• Joan Plowright: a life…

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