22 stories by "Dan Susman"
Record numbers of people in Britain now see themselves as transgender. But does the way transgender people are represented on stage and on screen reflect reality? Jenny Kleeman meets trans a…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Zawe Ashton speaks Jaques's lines on the seven ages of man from Ac…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Paterson Joseph speaks Shylock's lines from The Merchant of Venice…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Laura Carmichael speaks Portia's lines from The Merchant of Venice…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Damian Lewis performs Antony's lines from act III, scene 2 of Juli…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Zawe Ashton speaks Jacques's lines on the seven ages of man from A…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Riz Ahmed speaks Edmund's soliloquy from the start of Act I, Scene…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Joanna Lumley speaks Viola's soliloquy from Twelfth Night, Act II,…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Camille O'Sullivan plays Constance in King John, Act III, Scene 4.…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Daniel Mays speaks Macbeth's lines from Act II, Scene 1. As Macbet…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, David Threlfall speaks Prospero's lines from The Tempest, Act IV, …
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Sacha Dhawan delivers an edited version of Parolles's lines from t…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Samuel West speaks Henry V's soliloquy from Act IV, Scene 1. On th…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Adrian Lester speaks Hamlet's soliloquy from act III, scene 1, in …
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Eileen Atkins speaks Emilia's lines from Othello, act IV scene 3. …
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Joanna Vanderham speaks Juliet's monologue from the balcony scene …
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Ayesha Dharker plays Titania, the queen of the fairies in A Midsum…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Roger Allam plays King Lear in act III, scene 2 of the tragedy. Le…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, David Morrissey speaks the opening lines from Richard III in which…
Adrian Lester as Hamlet, David Morrissey as Richard III, Joanna Lumley as Viola, Daniel Mays as Macbeth … To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to p…
Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody was the UK's Christmas number 1 in 1975. Forty years later, the song is reinterpreted by a duet from the English National Ballet, a string quartet from the Royal Ac…
Rapper Nasir 'Nas' Jones takes us on a world tour of breakdancing in the most unexpected places, as we visit the slums, shanty towns and ghettos of the world, where hip-hop really means some…