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Romans review – Alice Birch’s epic search for the meaning of masculinity

We follow three brothers through a Victorian childhood to the 21st-century in this time-bending tale exploring the essence of what it is to be male

The Guardian - UK

Romans, a novel at Almeida Theatre: 'hugely ambitious portrait of masculinity'

4/5 An epic tale of three brothers in Alice Birch’s critique of manhood

Evening Standard

‘I had to think about Andrew Tate. That was miserable’: 150 years of masculinity, all in one play

Revered for her work on Succession and Normal People, Alice Birch has now written an era-spanning play about men, novels and the manosphere. Give me a Brontë any day, she says

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Cate Blanchett set to star in Sweetsick

Cate Blanchett will play the central character in Sweetsick, Alice Birch's directorial debut.

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Sally Rooney: ‘Falling in love when I was very young transformed my life’

Sally Rooney on romance, writing about sex and, the Normal People phenomenon and her new novel, Intermezzo

The Guardian - UK

The Ministry of Time: everything we know

The Ministry of Time is an adaptation of a hotly-anticipated, genre-busting debut novel from Kaliane Bradley. Here's what we know about it right now.

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The week in theatre: Macbeth; The House of Bernarda Alba – review

Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma are magnetic murderers in Simon Godwin’s bleakly immersive warehouse production, while Harriet Walter commands the stage in Rebecca Frecknall’s stylish, if underheated Lorca

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The House of Bernarda Alba review – Harriet Walter rules as Lorca gets a refurb

Adapted by Alice Birch and directed by Rebecca Frecknall, this is a stylised study in control and daughterly disobedience

The Guardian - UK

The House of Bernarda Alba at the National Theatre review: a study of repression horribly relevant to today

Harriet Walter cleaves through the teeming action like a dreadnought

Evening Standard

Alice Birch: ‘When I’m writing, the banalities of motherhood such as head lice disappear’

The Normal People screenwriter talks about growing up in a commune, heartbreaking plays, and the rumours that she’s collaborating with Taylor Swift

The Guardian - UK

Taylor Swift ‘in talks’ with Succession writer for a TV series about her past relationships

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Marie Claire

'Dead Ringers' limited series shares the film's DNA, but it's no twin

A psychological thriller about twin gynecologists losing their minds now has a sibling of its own. And it's a girl.

Los Angeles Times

Dead Ringers showrunner weighs in on hopes for a season 2: "This has always been a limited series"

Exclusive: Alice Birch says Dead Ringers season 2 isn't something they're looking into doing

Total Film

The 7 best new movies and shows to stream this weekend

From terrifying twins to tech gone bad, here's what to watch this weekend

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Dead Ringers showrunner opens up about that wild, surprisingly twisty ending

Exclusive: Alice Birch tells us why she "didn't want to just mimic the film" for the Prime Video show's conclusion

Total Film

Dead Ringers team talk the importance of showcasing Elliot and Beverly's sillier sides in bloody TV reboot

Exclusive: Showrunner Alice Birch and Rachel Weisz also explain why Dead Ringers had to be a series, and changes they made from the Cronenberg movie

Inverse

'Dead Ringers' Review: Amazon Sharpens Cronenberg's Original Sci-Fi Thriller to a Bloody Point

Rachel Weisz pulls double duty in Prime Video's TV series remake of the David Cronenberg classic.

The Guardian - UK

‘Life can be complicated’: Rachel Weisz on balancing privacy with stardom

Her latest TV series calls for her to play both twins in a reworking of Cronenberg’s dark and bloody classic, Dead Ringers. But Rachel Weisz, the famously private Oscar-winner, is used to stepping in and out of roles

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The Wonder review: Florence Pugh is at home in this beguiling period drama – with a controversial beginning

Past the odd – and already critically divisive – opening, this period drama is a sincere exploration of faith and truth

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What to stream: 'The Wonder' and other standout performances from Florence Pugh

Chilean director Sebastián Lelio’s latest film, “The Wonder,” makes its streaming debut on Netflix this week, premiering Wednesday. “The Wonder” is co-written by Lelio, Alice Birch and Emma Donoghue, on whose 2016 novel the film is based. The film takes place in 1862 Ireland, where an English nurse, played by…

The Guardian - UK

The Wonder review – a haunting period drama of faith and reason

Florence Pugh stars as a nurse called in to verify a miracle in Sebastián Lelio’s powerful story set in 19th-century Ireland

The Guardian - UK

Violet review – Coult’s debut opera opens Aldeburgh with assurance

Alice Birch’s elliptical story of a wife finding freedom as society disintegrates is opaque but Tom Coult’s confident and varied score gives the work power

The Guardian - UK

Conversations With Friends review – TV so slow it must be trolling us

Sally Rooney’s second TV adaptation is an aggressively uneventful affair stuffed with meaningful looks and strained silences. Why doesn’t anyone speak? Why can’t anything happen?

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