7 h. ago Brian Cox on Tom Stoppard’s sensational Rock’n’Roll: ‘I looked through the curtain and saw Mick Jagger and Václav Havel’

The actor, who starred as a Marxist academic in the acclaimed 2006 play at the Royal Court, remembers an astonishing writer of ideas and eleganceBy the time I was cast in Rock’n’Roll in 2006 I had been following Tom for years. I saw Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead when it came to London in 1967 with the wonderful Graham Crowden as the Player King. It was a big sensation. The Real Thing was a great play and Arcadia was extraordinary.Rock’n’Roll was w at the Royal Court in London by Trevor Nunn and starred Rufus Sewell as Jan, a Czech student who returns to Prague in 1968. I played Max, a Marxist academic. It was a fascinating experience, because there were two plays there: the play about Sappho, the Ancient Greek poet, and the play about the Soviet takeover in Czechoslovakia. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Ant Middleton shared ‘sensitive’ special forces details on podcast, court told

Mr Middleton, who served in the special forces from 2008 to 2011, is opposing the legal claim.

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9 d. ago Protest group Palestine Action goes to court to challenge its ban by the UK government

Lawyers for a pro-Palestinian protest group banned by the British government are challenging its classification as a terrorist organization

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1 week ago Daughter settles legal claim against Government over father’s ‘degrading’ death

Alpha Kalay died in 2021 after multiple opportunities to care for him were missed by staff at HMP Hull, where he was serving a prison sentence.

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3 w. ago Porn Play review, Royal Court Theatre – Ambika Mod’s bold addiction drama resists simple answers

The ‘One Day’ star plays a young professor whose addiction to violent pornography online makes for confronting real-life viewing

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3 w. ago Porn Play at the Royal Court review: Ambika Mod is harrowingly good as a porn addict

Sophia Chetin-Leuner has crafted a deliberately shocking, thoughtful work that’s also funny

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3 w. ago Sentimental and Somber Royal Jewels on Remembrance Sunday in London

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