Rush, Russell Beale, Salminen & Skovhus: four Lears on tackling Shakespeare’s tortured monarch.

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King Lear
For many, King Lear is Shakespeare’s greatest play. Over the years it has been chopped about to suit the times, served as a vehicle for a host of legendary actors and even become an opera or two. As Geoffrey Rush prepares to take the title role, a quartet of acting and singing Lears talk about the challenges of portraying the Bard’s complex, tortured monarch.

 

Verbier Festival
Four days in the Swiss alps courtesy of the Verbier Festival? Who wouldn’t jump at an opportunity for wall-to-wall concerts, celebrity musicians and some hiking in the alipine air?

 

Seven Deadly Sins
Artists have long been involved in a love-hate relationship with the seven deadly sins. We look...