THE NEW FILM HAMNET, BASED ON MAGGIE O’FARRELL’S award-winning 2020 novel, imagines how William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in a haze of grief over the death of his son. In a sly bit of casting, director

Finally arriving on British screens in a golden cloud of awards hype, this take-no-prisoners tearjerker sees Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao rebounding from the Marvel mediocrity of Eternals — but i

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As Dame Judi Dench explores a connection to her hero William Shakespeare, she talks love, death, forgiveness and controlling her temper

A stellar Othello in which the narrative takes centre stage puts the spotlight on the theme of the outsider, which threads through many of this month’s productions