“Don’t put your co-artistic director on the stage, Mrs Harvey,” as Noel Coward once (almost) sang.

When Sir Ian McKellen performed the first same-sex kiss on British TV in the 1970 BBC production of Christopher Marlowe’s ...

INTERVIEW: Daniel Evans talks about playing the lead in ‘political thriller’ Edward II at the RSC Swan Theatre ...

Daniel Raggett’s darkly atmospheric, modern-dress staging hinges on a performance of real bravery from RSC co artistic ...

Daniel Evans as Edward II, Laura Carreira's film On Falling, last night's Oscar winners What this year's Oscar winners say ...

RSC’s co-artistic director Daniel Evans returns to the stage in Daniel Raggett’s production, running until 5 April ...

Both of the RSC’s major new productions begin with funereal solemnity: Hamlet (in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre) starts with a burial at sea; Edward II (in the Swan Theatre) opens with the dead ...

The story relates the disastrous reign of Edward II, whose lavishing of gifts and political power on his low-born lifelong companion Gaveston drove a wedge between the king and the nobles on whom ...

Now, though, the 51-year-old has returned to the stage as an actor, starring as the title character in Edward II, Christopher Marlowe’s Renaissance drama about the 14th-century monarch ...

I'll bandy with the barons and the earls, and either die or live with Gaveston.' There has been much conjecture over the ...

Sean Baker made Oscar history, becoming the first person to win four Academy Awards for directing, editing, writing and producing a single film, Anora. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh joins Samira to look at this ...