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Rebecca Frecknall directs Alice Birch’s take on the tragedy, starring Harriet Walter

Glenda Jackson, who has died aged 87, was one of Britain’s most arrestingly forthright and abrasively intelligent exponents of the classics on stage and screen.

Demand for audiobooks is growing among Spanish speakers across the globe.

LONDON — "That Lorca is completely bonkers," says the actress in Spanish, prompting laughter from a group of British teenagers at London's Cervantes Theatre.Artistic director Paula Paz, who co-founded the theatre with the actor and director Jorge de Juan, said Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is a firm favourite with audiences in the UK.From an unassuming corner of south

LONDON: "That Lorca is completely bonkers," says the actress in Spanish, prompting laughter from a group of British teenagers at London's Cervantes Theatre.

Loco for Lorca: UK theatre fuels passion for Spanish

"That Lorca is completely bonkers," says the actress in Spanish, prompting laughter from a group of British teenagers at London's Cervantes Theatre.

"That Lorca is completely bonkers," says the actress in Spanish, prompting laughter from a group of British teenagers at London's Cervantes Theatre.

Gecko, Vinay Patel and more among the highlights

With her bright copper hair, coral-pink lipstick and hand-sewn velvet winter coat, passers-by would mistake her for a homeless person.