Ruth Negga: ‘I found London quite limiting to be honest’
The actor on her journey from Limerick to LA and her performance in Rebecca Hall’s Passing
Saoirse Ronan: Kim Kardashian has inspired my portrayal of Lady Macbeth
‘Power couple’ Kardashian and Kanye West helpful in interpreting Shakespeare, says actor
Saoirse Ronan to make UK stage debut in feminist Macbeth
Actor reunited with James McArdle in London staging of the Shakespeare tragedy
Sexual assault: How do you change the script?
Drama and performance can play a role in teasing out the grey areas of consent, and changing hearts and behaviour
Hamlet review: Ruth Negga stars in an oddly one-note interpretation
Dublin Theatre Festival: Yaël Farber hones play’s divisions into survey of allies and enemies
Directing Ruth Negga as Hamlet: ‘Theatre either puts you to sleep or wakes you up’
South Africa’s Yaël Farber, who cast Ruth Negga, is accustomed to fresh perspectives
Ruth Negga as Hamlet: Outsiders are in at the Gate theatre
Gate breaks from its painful recent past with ‘The Snapper’ and an innovative ‘Hamlet’
Review: Nirbhaya
Yaël Farber’s play, prompted by a brutal gang rape in Delhi and its ensuing outcry, transforms victimhood into bravery through fearless testimony
Welcome to Edinburgh Fringe: ‘It’s a meat market’
So says playwright and actor Stefanie Preissner of trying to get your show noticed at the Fringe, which, like negotiating the hilly city itself, can be an uphill slog or a freewheeling delight
Where the bodies are buried: sexuality and power in South Africa
It’s a new day in South Africa in Yael Farber’s new version of Miss Julie. Has anything really changed?
Yael Farber: Turning up the heat in South Africa
South Africa’s intense society shows the best and worst of humanity, says Yael Farber. Can ‘Mies Julie’, her version of Strindberg’s class tragedy, escape apartheid?
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