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An interlude to explore some of the greatest plays of all time and the extraordinary people who create them and bring them to life on the stage.

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Gyles Brandreth reads for The Queen’s Reading Room
On Quoting Shakespeare
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Fiona Shaw
Richard II
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Samuel West
On Shakespeare’s Love
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Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Faustus
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Director Maria Aberg
On Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
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Henrik Ibsen
A Doll’s House
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Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
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David Suchet
On The Importance of Being Earnest
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George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion
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Anton Chekhov
The Seagull
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Anna Chancellor and Toby Stephens
On Noel Coward’s Private Lives
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Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens
In Private Lives
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Arthur Miller
On All My Sons
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Susan Hill
The Woman in Black
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Alan Bennett
On The History Boys
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Life of Pi – Behind the Scenes
Puppetry with Nick Barnes

Online exclusives

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Mark Rylance
On Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem – Full Interview
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Michael Morpurgo
On War Horse – Full Interview
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Lolita Chakabarti
On Life of Pi – Full Interview
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Helen Edmundson
On Small Island – Full Interview
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Tom Stoppard
On Leopoldstadt – Full Interview