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With three new versions on stage this month, the ancient Greek classic – and its reflections on authority and devotion – remains as compelling as ever
Starring Ian McKellen and directed by Sean Mathias, it really resonates in a time of ongoing pandemic.
So it wasn’t Cinderella but Hamlet who was first out of the post-lockdown starting blocks – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s much trumpeted musical premiere being foiled by a ping at the weekend. Instead the historic first curtain-up was 20 miles up the River Thames in Windsor, on a Shakespeare production that itself has been disrupted over and over during the past 16 months – possibly with even more urgent, unspoken worries, as the star is Ian McKellen, who was 80 when rehearsal began, and Covid began devastating the older generation, and is now 82. Pingless so far, Sean Mathias...
© Marc Brenner Headlines have accompanied every step of the long, pandemic-delayed run-up to the opening of this production of Hamlet. The main one was that at the age of 82, Ian McKellen was about to become the oldest Prince of Denmark the UK has ever seen. He was doing so in a production that was age, colour and gender blind, with Francesca Annis, once McKellen's Juliet, now cast as the ghost of Hamlet's father and an Ophelia in the shape 20-something Alis Wyn Davies. So far, so intriguing. Then bad news began to break. Steven Berkoff, who was due to play Polonius, left the production as ...
Hey there, film score lovers! Welcome to another edition of CS Score. This week we’re taking a look at Intrada's re-released expanded score for Jerry Goldsmith's The Mummy, and speaking with Tree Adams about his score for the documentary BELUSHI.