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BIZARRE: Lady macbeth - What They Never Told You

Sex, Stalin and Shostakovich: the story of the 1934 opera the Soviet leader walked out of

At the BBC Proms in September, the Albert Hall will stage a concert performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s controversial 1934 opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.

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20 Years Later, a Wildly Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Is Getting a Huge Upgrade

Tide yourself between now and 'Riddick: Furya's future theatrical run with Arrow Video’s luxurious new 4K release of 'The Chronicles of Riddick.'

Inverse

Smashing the girlboss myths: how women are doing ambition on their own terms

Women who make it have always had to hustle harder. But a new generation is claiming the power to be flexible about their ambitions. Can they really ‘have it all’?

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Macbeth (An Undoing): a new take that aims to reimagine Lady Macbeth’s path – but ultimately leaves you guessing

What if significant portions of William Shakespeare’s text for Macbeth had been lost, leading to a narrative in which Lady Macbeth charts a different path, free from madness?

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The 7 best new movies and shows to stream this weekend

From Players to Past Lives, here's what to watch this weekend

Total Film

Sound and fury, signifying something: what made Macbeth so popular in 2023?

Ralph Fiennes and David Tennant are among the stars playing Shakespeare’s Thane this year. Might the tragedy’s current popularity have something to do with the Tory government?

The Guardian - UK

‘I studied the play in school – I hated it’: Cush Jumbo and David Tennant on playing the Macbeths

The Shakespeare virtuosos are about to share a stage in a modern-day version of the Scottish play. Fresh out of rehearsals, they discuss PTSD, childhood ambition and what makes them angry

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The book that haunts me – seven experts on the scariest thing they’ve ever read

A truly scary story never really leaves you. It lurks in long evening shadows, calls out through mysterious bumps in the night and blows down your neck whenever you feel a sudden shiver. With Halloween approaching, we asked six of our academic experts to tell us about the scariest book…

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Clean Sweep review – silly crime fun with the most incredible beard I’ve ever seen

This new Irish thriller starring Charlene McKenna opens with a Lady Macbeth moment. If you can get past the ludicrous twists and an unfeasibly hairy disguise, it’s enjoyable

The Guardian - UK

Prigozhin and the aftermath of Russian folly

'I said to Putin: 'We could waste [Prigozhin], no problem. If not on the first try, then on the second.' I told him: 'Don't do this'," said Aleksander Lukashenko, long-ruling dictator of Belarus, clearly delighted at having upstaged his arrogant Russian counterpart. The worm had turned, and it was the…

Bangkok Post

Hyderabad-based Canopy Theatre and Storyboard Productions to stage William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ in Telugu

Hyderabad-based Canopy Theatre and Storyboard Productions to stage William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ in Telugu; The play unfolds from the witches’ point of view

The Hindu

Succession finale: HBO’s epic family drama comes to an end

Warning: the following article contains spoilers.

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Cush Jumbo to join David Tennant in Macbeth at London’s Donmar Warehouse

The actor, who has previously starred as Hamlet at the Young Vic, is to play Lady Macbeth among a wave of star-powered Shakespeare productions this year

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'Guardians of the Galaxy 3' Villain Explains Her Ambiguous Ending

Miriam Shor plays the henchwoman of the 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3' villain, the High Evolutionary. But she's more than just an observer.

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Dreda Say Mitchell: ‘I’m a massive historical romance fangirl’

The crime novelist on the allure of Poldark, the power of The Color Purple and joys of Jack Reacher

The Guardian - UK

Macbeth (An Undoing) review – sound and fury signifying nothing

The concept is promising, and it’s acted with panache, yet Zinnie Harris’s Shakespeare adaptation falls flat

Daily Mirror

Inside Liz Truss's most shambolic night yet as 'disgraced' PM has '12 hours left'

MPs say Liz Truss has hours to save her job after 'Armageddon' scenes in Parliament. We take you through one of the most shambolic nights we've ever seen - one swearing MP at a time

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Chequers is off and what’s done cannot be undone. All that is left now is to be a super trouper

The PM’s wife reflects on a tumultuous week and seeks solace in Shakespeare and her fave Swedish band

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Evening Standard

From Carrie Johnson to Melania Trump — political wives and the Lady Macbeth complex

Leaders’ wives are cast either as puppeteers with too much power — or as dim damsels only good for a photo call. What’s the truth, asks Freya Berry

The Guardian - UK

Apostasy to Lady Macbeth: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

A devastating drama about a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Florence Pugh shines in a passionate period drama. Plus: The Truman Show and In the Heat of the Night

The Guardian - UK

Ozark review – Jason Bateman and Laura Linney could teach Lady Macbeth a thing or two

The Byrde family face an impossible challenge in this final series: help a cartel boss to walk away, or go the way of their many victims. Will they make it out alive?

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