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Michelle Terry

May 2024

  • Francesca Amewudah-Rivers as Juliet, with Kody Mortimer (camera operator) in Romeo & Juliet.

    The week in theatre: Romeo & Juliet; Richard III; Passing Strange review – no fault in these stars

    Jamie Lloyd’s youthfully intense staging gives us a Juliet for the ages; Michelle Terry’s king rises above the disability row; and the European premiere of a Broadway musical rocks but doesn’t soar
  • Michelle Terry and Helen Schlesinger in Richard III at Shakespeare's Globe.

    Richard III review – a fast-paced study of toxic masculinity with an almost entirely female cast

    Michelle Terry portrays the king as a playfully antic sociopath in a lively production full of effective performances
  • Terry as Richard III, wearing a cropped blond wig, a black leather jacket and black trousers. She is sitting on the edge of the stage.

    ‘The level of hate was dangerous’: Michelle Terry on the backlash to her casting as Richard III

    Artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe says much of the anger about a non-disabled actor playing the role has been misogynistic

February 2024

  • Composite: Richard III actors. Tom Mothersdale at Bristol Old Vic, 2019, Mat Fraser at Hull Truck Theatre, 2017, Arthur Hughes at RSC, 2022.

    Acting, disability and the problem with ‘lived experience’

    Letters: Guardian readers respond to the row about a non-disabled actor playing Richard III at Shakespeare’s Globe

January 2024

  • Michelle Terry as Hotspur in Henry IV Part I at Shakespeare's Globe, London, in 2019.

    Shakespeare’s Globe criticised for casting non-disabled actor as Richard III

    Disabled actors respond to the announcement that Michelle Terry, the Globe’s artistic director, will be taking up the role

May 2023

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe, London, May 2023.

    A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – giddy shenanigans with a brilliantly chaotic Puck

    This bright, bold show tries to balance humour and darkness but tends to land on the silly side of things

July 2022

  • Tom Hollander as Boris Berezovsky in Patriots.

    The week in theatre: Patriots; The Tempest; King Lear

    Tom Hollander excels in Peter Morgan’s incisive oligarch drama; Deborah Warner directs a fine Tempest; and Michelle Terry plays both the Fool and Cordelia to Kathryn Hunter’s Lear

June 2022

  • A sense of everything ending … Kathryn Hunter in King Lear at Shakespeare’s Globe, London.

    King Lear review – Kathryn Hunter’s frail, fond old ruler almost unbearably affecting

    Back in the role she first played in 1997, Hunter uses her extraordinary transformative powers to show us the king as a geriatric child at the head of a disintegrating nation

February 2022

  • Henry V

    Once more unto the breach! Burton, Branagh and the battling stars of Henry V – in pictures

    Kit Harington is the latest actor to take on the role in Shakespeare’s history play. Look back at past portrayals by Michael Sheen, Mark Rylance, Laurence Olivier, Michelle Terry and many more

May 2021

  • Michelle Terry at the Globe.

    ‘There are lots of feelings!’ Michelle Terry on reopening Shakespeare’s Globe

    The artistic director looks back at a year of crisis for the arts and ahead to a celebratory, livestreamed summer season

August 2020

  • A scene from On The Town in 2017m

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    Great outdoors: the magic of Regent's Park Open Air theatre – in pictures

  • Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet) in the RSC’s 1992 production at the Barbican in London.

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    Method and madness: Branagh, Rylance and Rickman as Hamlet – in pictures

April 2020

  • Clockwise from top left: Roger Allam, Surabhi Chaturvedi, Sean Burke and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

    Shakespeare solos
    Quarantine Players: stars and theatre fans unite to perform Shakespeare solos

    The Guardian and Shakespeare’s Globe present three new versions of speeches from the Bard’s plays, performed by professional actors and theatre lovers around the world

May 2019

  • Cush Jumbo as Hamlet

    Thy name is woman: female Hamlets from Sarah Bernhardt to Cush Jumbo - in pictures

    Ophelia and Gertrude are the chief female characters in Hamlet but many female actors have taken on the lead role itself including Asta Nielsen, Frances de la Tour and Maxine Peake
  • DEATH OF A SALESMAN at Young Vic, May 2019

    The week in theatre: Death of a Salesman; Henry IV Part 1; Henry IV Part 2; Henry V – review

    An outstanding cast portray a family stuck together while falling apart in the Young Vic’s Death of a Salesman
  • Sarah Amankwah (Henry V) and Colin Hurley in Henry V or Harry England by The Globe Ensemble @ Shakespeare's Globe. (Opening 10-05-19)

    Henry IV Parts 1 and 2/Henry V review – a game of thrones with lots of leather

    Michelle Terry is revelatory as Hotspur and Sarah Amankwah makes a majestic Henry in a valiant if uneven trilogy

November 2018

  • Katie West as Ophelia and Maxine Peake as Hamlet

    All the women players: cross-gender Shakespeare – in pictures

    Kathryn Hunter is about to play the RSC’s first Lady Timon of Athens and next year the Globe is staging Richard II with a company of women of colour. Here’s a look back at some of the many actresses who have taken major male roles in Shakespeare’s plays
  • Fascinate and surprise ... Michelle Terry and Paul Ready in Macbeth directed by Robert Hastie.

    Macbeth review – real-life husband and wife make a dynamic duo

    Paul Ready and Michelle Terry work brilliantly to create a central relationship that feels intimate and believable
  • Paul Ready

    Motherland's Paul Ready: 'Michelle Terry and I are very much like the Macbeths!'

    He has done politics in Bodyguard, horror in Utopia and comedy as Kevin in Motherland. Next up for Paul Ready is Shakespeare’s tragedy, alongside his wife, at the Globe

May 2018

  • Colin Hurley (the Ghost) with Michelle Terry as Hamlet in Hamlet at Shakespeare’s Globe, London.

    The week in theatre: Hamlet; As You Like It; Shirleymander – review

    Michelle Terry’s reign as artistic director of the Globe begins with an assured, fast-paced double bill
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