Trigger warnings serve the purpose of letting audiences know that some material in the work – a film, TV show or stage production – may be offensive or outdated. But they are also seen as catering to “woke culture” and those who might be labeled “overly sensitive.” As such, many celebrities have spoken out against trigger warnings, with the latest being none other than Dame Judi Dench, who, on the cusp of turning 90, has no time for such nonsense.
As per Radio Times, Judi Dench seemed more concerned that trigger warnings robbed audiences of shock and surprise. “That’s why we go to the theatre, isn’t it? To be shocked, to be arrested out of ourselves, to recognise ourselves in front and with an audience…My God, it must be a pretty long trigger warning before King Lear or Titus Andronicus! Crikey, is that really what happens now?”
Dench went on...
As per Radio Times, Judi Dench seemed more concerned that trigger warnings robbed audiences of shock and surprise. “That’s why we go to the theatre, isn’t it? To be shocked, to be arrested out of ourselves, to recognise ourselves in front and with an audience…My God, it must be a pretty long trigger warning before King Lear or Titus Andronicus! Crikey, is that really what happens now?”
Dench went on...
- 5/14/2024
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Judi Dench has become the latest actor to rail against trigger warnings in the theatre, telling people to stay at home if they are sensitive.
The Oscar-winning actress said she was surprised to learn that audiences were routinely being warned about potentially distressing content, including abuse, violence, and loud noises.
“Do they do that?” Dench told the UK’s Radio Times: “It must be a pretty long trigger warning before King Lear or Titus Andronicus.”
She added: “I can see why they exist, but if you’re that sensitive, don’t go to the theatre, because you could be very shocked. Where is the surprise of seeing and understanding it in your own way?”
Dench, whose stage credits include Lady Macbeth, echoed the sentiments of others when noting her discomfort with trigger warnings.
Ralph Fiennes said theatregoers had “gone soft” in an interview with the BBC earlier this year.
The Oscar-winning actress said she was surprised to learn that audiences were routinely being warned about potentially distressing content, including abuse, violence, and loud noises.
“Do they do that?” Dench told the UK’s Radio Times: “It must be a pretty long trigger warning before King Lear or Titus Andronicus.”
She added: “I can see why they exist, but if you’re that sensitive, don’t go to the theatre, because you could be very shocked. Where is the surprise of seeing and understanding it in your own way?”
Dench, whose stage credits include Lady Macbeth, echoed the sentiments of others when noting her discomfort with trigger warnings.
Ralph Fiennes said theatregoers had “gone soft” in an interview with the BBC earlier this year.
- 5/14/2024
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Ian Gelder, the British actor who played Kevan Lannister on HBO’s Game of Thrones and the villain Zellin on Doctor Who, has died. He was 74.
“It is with huge huge sadness and a heavy heart broken into a million pieces that I’m leaving this post to announce the passing of my darling husband and life partner Ian Gelder,” the actor Ben Daniels announced on Instagram. Daniels revealed that Gelder had been diagnosed with bile duct cancer five months ago and that “neither of us had any idea that it would all be so fast.”
“He was my absolute rock and we’d been partners for more than 30 years. If we weren’t together we spoke to each other everyday,” Daniels wrote. “He was the kindest, most generous spirited and loving human being. He was a wonderful wonderful actor, and everyone who worked with him was touched by his heart and light.
“It is with huge huge sadness and a heavy heart broken into a million pieces that I’m leaving this post to announce the passing of my darling husband and life partner Ian Gelder,” the actor Ben Daniels announced on Instagram. Daniels revealed that Gelder had been diagnosed with bile duct cancer five months ago and that “neither of us had any idea that it would all be so fast.”
“He was my absolute rock and we’d been partners for more than 30 years. If we weren’t together we spoke to each other everyday,” Daniels wrote. “He was the kindest, most generous spirited and loving human being. He was a wonderful wonderful actor, and everyone who worked with him was touched by his heart and light.
- 5/8/2024
- by Abid Rahman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On Wednesday, November 8, 2023, at 10:00 Pm, BBC Two will premiere the first episode of “Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius.” This historical documentary series transports viewers to the year 1587, a pivotal moment in the life of the legendary playwright William Shakespeare.
In this episode, young William Shakespeare leaves his small town of Stratford and embarks on a journey to the bustling and perilous city of London. Public theater is at the forefront of modernity, and Shakespeare starts at the very bottom, striving to fulfill his dreams of becoming a playwright. The episode explores his early days in the live-fast, die-young world of London, where he pens the sensational hit “Titus Andronicus” and the tragic teenage romance “Romeo and Juliet.”
This program offers an account of Shakespeare’s early life and career, making it accessible for a wide range of audiences, including history enthusiasts and those eager to learn more about the iconic playwright.
In this episode, young William Shakespeare leaves his small town of Stratford and embarks on a journey to the bustling and perilous city of London. Public theater is at the forefront of modernity, and Shakespeare starts at the very bottom, striving to fulfill his dreams of becoming a playwright. The episode explores his early days in the live-fast, die-young world of London, where he pens the sensational hit “Titus Andronicus” and the tragic teenage romance “Romeo and Juliet.”
This program offers an account of Shakespeare’s early life and career, making it accessible for a wide range of audiences, including history enthusiasts and those eager to learn more about the iconic playwright.
- 11/2/2023
- by Posts UK
- TV Everyday
“Succession” star Brian Cox is the latest luminary to impart his knowledge as part of the BBC’s Maestro online education initiative.
Cox’s course, titled simply “Acting,” will shine a spotlight on how to deliver award-winning performances, capture — and hold — an audience’s collective attention, and embody a multitude of iconic characters. As is customary with the Maestro template, across his lessons, Cox will direct aspiring actors through practical exercises designed to help them master both stage and screen. Lessons will delve into character development, script analysis and the essential techniques to take into their next audition. The course will include a discussion of the key components of acting, insights from a casting director and a practical workshop led by Cox.
The classically trained actor is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Besides Logan Roy in “Succession,” his performances as Hermann Göring in “Nuremberg,...
Cox’s course, titled simply “Acting,” will shine a spotlight on how to deliver award-winning performances, capture — and hold — an audience’s collective attention, and embody a multitude of iconic characters. As is customary with the Maestro template, across his lessons, Cox will direct aspiring actors through practical exercises designed to help them master both stage and screen. Lessons will delve into character development, script analysis and the essential techniques to take into their next audition. The course will include a discussion of the key components of acting, insights from a casting director and a practical workshop led by Cox.
The classically trained actor is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Besides Logan Roy in “Succession,” his performances as Hermann Göring in “Nuremberg,...
- 9/12/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Jared Francis Harris is a famed British actor who is best known for his versatility on stage, working across numerous genres over the years. His most famous work, perhaps, may very well be his inspiring performance as Lance Pryce in the AMC television American drama series Mad Men, a role which earned Harris nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Jared Harris Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education
Jared Harris was born on August 24, 1961 (Jared Harris age: 61) in Hammersmith, London. He was born the second of three sons. His father, Richard Harris, was a famous Irish actor and singer. His mother, Elizabeth Rees-Williams, was a Welsh actress. His older brother is Damian Harris and his younger brother is Jamie Harris.
Harris and his two brothers studied at Ladycross School, which was a former preparatory boarding independent school located in the coastal town of Seaford in East Sussex.
Jared Harris Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education
Jared Harris was born on August 24, 1961 (Jared Harris age: 61) in Hammersmith, London. He was born the second of three sons. His father, Richard Harris, was a famous Irish actor and singer. His mother, Elizabeth Rees-Williams, was a Welsh actress. His older brother is Damian Harris and his younger brother is Jamie Harris.
Harris and his two brothers studied at Ladycross School, which was a former preparatory boarding independent school located in the coastal town of Seaford in East Sussex.
- 8/13/2023
- by Trevor Hanuka
- Uinterview
Amazon Original series “The Horror of Dolores Roach,” based on the hit Gimlet podcast, isn’t shy about its influences. Giving a contemporary, gentrification spin on the Victorian cannibalism tale of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the new series from creator Aaron Mark injects winking nods at every turn and then some, including a reference to William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. As tongue-in-cheek as these knowing references can be, it also underscores how familiar Dolores Roach’s predicament can be, though it’s offset by Justina Machado’s relatable and empathetic performance.
Much like Sweeney Todd, we meet Machado’s Dolores Roach at the far end of a lengthy prison sentence she didn’t quite earn. Dolores took the fall for her drug dealer boyfriend Dominic and spent sixteen years in jail, and her release leaves her with very little to her name in a now-gentrified Washington Heights.
Much like Sweeney Todd, we meet Machado’s Dolores Roach at the far end of a lengthy prison sentence she didn’t quite earn. Dolores took the fall for her drug dealer boyfriend Dominic and spent sixteen years in jail, and her release leaves her with very little to her name in a now-gentrified Washington Heights.
- 7/5/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Chicago – While at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas, there are shuttles between the film theaters, and often en route some prime networking takes place. On one such shuttle connection was Tara Bopp, a featured actor in the world premiere of the short film “Never Fuggedaboutit,” a sly take on two legendary media events.
The story takes place during the high anxiety of post-9/11 NYC, as a struggling post-production house … managed by the character that Tara Bopp portrays … is hired to remove a shot of the Twin Towers from the intro to a hit TV show. As tensions rise on how to go about this task, the final outcome becomes a surprising conflict between what you do and who you are. “Never Fuggedaboutit” had its World Premiere at SXSW and was written and directed by Dustin Waldman.
Actor/Singer/Dancer Tara Bopp
Photo credit: TaraBopp.com
Tara Bopp grew up performing.
The story takes place during the high anxiety of post-9/11 NYC, as a struggling post-production house … managed by the character that Tara Bopp portrays … is hired to remove a shot of the Twin Towers from the intro to a hit TV show. As tensions rise on how to go about this task, the final outcome becomes a surprising conflict between what you do and who you are. “Never Fuggedaboutit” had its World Premiere at SXSW and was written and directed by Dustin Waldman.
Actor/Singer/Dancer Tara Bopp
Photo credit: TaraBopp.com
Tara Bopp grew up performing.
- 4/16/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Where do you start with cancelling things? Where do you stop?” says Hugh Bonneville. “Do you never ever produce Titus Andronicus because it involves the murder of infants and the baking of people’s heads in pies? Or The Merchant of Venice or The Taming of the Shrew? Or Hamlet because lots of people die in the end?”
I’m meeting the Downton Abbey star in a low-key coffee shop just off Trafalgar Square. We’re here to talk about The Gold, his new BBC One drama about one of Britain’s biggest ever real-life heists, but right now he’s wrestling with one of the debates of our time – cancel culture – and there’s a good reason for it: Notting Hill. The actor got his first major break in movies in Richard Curtis’s enduringly popular 1999 comedy. He played the stockbroker who asks Julia Roberts, “What do you do?...
I’m meeting the Downton Abbey star in a low-key coffee shop just off Trafalgar Square. We’re here to talk about The Gold, his new BBC One drama about one of Britain’s biggest ever real-life heists, but right now he’s wrestling with one of the debates of our time – cancel culture – and there’s a good reason for it: Notting Hill. The actor got his first major break in movies in Richard Curtis’s enduringly popular 1999 comedy. He played the stockbroker who asks Julia Roberts, “What do you do?...
- 2/12/2023
- by James Rampton
- The Independent - TV
Chances are you will recognise the above title as an infamous line from William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar – but don’t panic, it’s not time to dust off your old school textbooks. Just that yours truly decided to pop along to his local cinema the other night for a screening with a difference. Broadcast live from the Royal Shakespeare Company Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon to the Reel Cinema in Grantham, no less, was their 2017 production of the historic play. I may never pay to go and watch a movie again.
Okay, so that’s more than a slight exaggeration, but amongst Beauty and the Beast, Their Finest and The Fate of the Furious, it just leapt out at me. As I had watched a version of Julius Caesar many moons ago on a school trip, I had an inkling of what to expect from the play itself. However, it was...
Okay, so that’s more than a slight exaggeration, but amongst Beauty and the Beast, Their Finest and The Fate of the Furious, it just leapt out at me. As I had watched a version of Julius Caesar many moons ago on a school trip, I had an inkling of what to expect from the play itself. However, it was...
- 4/28/2017
- by Dan Green
- The Cultural Post
Titus Andronicus Adapted and Directed by Ross Williams Written by William Shakespeare New York Shakespeare Exchange at Here 145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013 January 22-February 8, 2015
The New York Shakespeare Exchange has its finger in more than one pie, and not all of them are, as in Titus Andronicus, filled with human flesh. In addition to its current production of Shakespeare’s gory early crowd-pleaser, the group created The Sonnet Project, which develops a short film shot in a “cultural/historic” NYC location for each sonnet. The results can be viewed online or through a dedicated mobile app (available for Ios or Android). It also runs periodic pub crawls called ShakesBEER, which we can personally recommend as a fun way to experience a few new drinking establishments in the City accompanied by themed scenes or mash-ups from the Bard’s dramatic canon.
Titus follows the increasingly brutal conflict between the title...
The New York Shakespeare Exchange has its finger in more than one pie, and not all of them are, as in Titus Andronicus, filled with human flesh. In addition to its current production of Shakespeare’s gory early crowd-pleaser, the group created The Sonnet Project, which develops a short film shot in a “cultural/historic” NYC location for each sonnet. The results can be viewed online or through a dedicated mobile app (available for Ios or Android). It also runs periodic pub crawls called ShakesBEER, which we can personally recommend as a fun way to experience a few new drinking establishments in the City accompanied by themed scenes or mash-ups from the Bard’s dramatic canon.
Titus follows the increasingly brutal conflict between the title...
- 2/10/2015
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
The plays of William Shakespeare have received more than their fair share of the cinematic treatment over the years. From the silent era version of The Taming of the Shrew to more recent “modern” adaptations of Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus, and everyone’s favorite standby Hamlet, the works of the Bard have been plumbed to the very depths. Yet, somehow, some of Shakespeare’s lesser known works have yet to see the light of a cinema screen. That is now being rectified with the upcoming Anarchy, a new and updated version of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline.
Anarchy takes Cymbeline out of the world of kings and courtiers and into modern-day motorcycles, street gangs, and drug dealing. The original play tells the story of King Cymbeline, his daughter Imogen, and her secret marriage to Posthumus Leonatus. Scheming members of the royal family and elsewhere lead to war between the Britons and the Romans.
Anarchy takes Cymbeline out of the world of kings and courtiers and into modern-day motorcycles, street gangs, and drug dealing. The original play tells the story of King Cymbeline, his daughter Imogen, and her secret marriage to Posthumus Leonatus. Scheming members of the royal family and elsewhere lead to war between the Britons and the Romans.
- 1/15/2015
- by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
- We Got This Covered
Puppet Titus Andronicus The Puppet Shakespeare Players, directed by Ryan Rinkel
If you like your Elizabethan revenge tragedy filtered through a mixture of Avenue Q and a Robot Chicken episode, then you can probably stop reading right here and go buy tickets to Puppet Titus Andronicus. This raucous reimagining of William Shakespeare's already over-the-top blood-soaked drama renders Muppet-on-Muppet mutilation and familial cannibalism more fun (and funny) than it probably has any right to be. The cast takes the Bard's early commercial hit, a play that begins with a religious sacrifice, runs through several deaths and a rape, and ends with a series of rapid-fire onstage murders that ostensibly tie up all of the loose ends--and which later, for reasons not understood by this reviewer, fell into critical disfavor for a couple of hundred years--and cloaks it in felt and silly string, combining the original text, scripted jokes, and improvisation.
If you like your Elizabethan revenge tragedy filtered through a mixture of Avenue Q and a Robot Chicken episode, then you can probably stop reading right here and go buy tickets to Puppet Titus Andronicus. This raucous reimagining of William Shakespeare's already over-the-top blood-soaked drama renders Muppet-on-Muppet mutilation and familial cannibalism more fun (and funny) than it probably has any right to be. The cast takes the Bard's early commercial hit, a play that begins with a religious sacrifice, runs through several deaths and a rape, and ends with a series of rapid-fire onstage murders that ostensibly tie up all of the loose ends--and which later, for reasons not understood by this reviewer, fell into critical disfavor for a couple of hundred years--and cloaks it in felt and silly string, combining the original text, scripted jokes, and improvisation.
- 8/10/2014
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
Columbia Pictures
Time was more or less invented to mess with the way you think about things, but not in the way you’d expect it to. From the moment we can form any semblance of memory and cohesive thought, we think we have a grasp on the whole concept of time, but in truth, that couldn’t be further from the truth.
For example, should you ask any of my fellow twenty-somethings what it was like to be alive ten years ago, chances are that you’d end up lead on a nostalgic meander about how amazing the nineties were, with all of the great cartoons, toys and video games mentioned, and every possible reason why it was a million times better to be young back then. You can then watch with great pleasure as you break it to them that all of those things happened closer to twenty years ago,...
Time was more or less invented to mess with the way you think about things, but not in the way you’d expect it to. From the moment we can form any semblance of memory and cohesive thought, we think we have a grasp on the whole concept of time, but in truth, that couldn’t be further from the truth.
For example, should you ask any of my fellow twenty-somethings what it was like to be alive ten years ago, chances are that you’d end up lead on a nostalgic meander about how amazing the nineties were, with all of the great cartoons, toys and video games mentioned, and every possible reason why it was a million times better to be young back then. You can then watch with great pleasure as you break it to them that all of those things happened closer to twenty years ago,...
- 3/24/2014
- by Stephen Kennedy
- Obsessed with Film
One of Britain's most distinguished actors, known for her roles on stage and screen
Margaret Tyzack, who has died aged 79, was one of Britain's greatest and most popular actors, working on stage, television and film for more than half a century. Sometimes described as being in the mould of Edith Evans and Flora Robson, she will be remembered particularly for performances in the golden age of BBC TV drama – Winifred in The Forsyte Saga (1967), Antonia in I, Claudius (1976) – as well as for stage performances such as Martha in the National Theatre's revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1981), for which she won an Olivier award for best actress, and Lottie with Maggie Smith in Lettice and Lovage (1987 and 1990), which earned her both Tony and Variety Club stage actress of the year awards. In 2008, well into her 70s, she scored perhaps one of her finest triumphs on stage as the wily,...
Margaret Tyzack, who has died aged 79, was one of Britain's greatest and most popular actors, working on stage, television and film for more than half a century. Sometimes described as being in the mould of Edith Evans and Flora Robson, she will be remembered particularly for performances in the golden age of BBC TV drama – Winifred in The Forsyte Saga (1967), Antonia in I, Claudius (1976) – as well as for stage performances such as Martha in the National Theatre's revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1981), for which she won an Olivier award for best actress, and Lottie with Maggie Smith in Lettice and Lovage (1987 and 1990), which earned her both Tony and Variety Club stage actress of the year awards. In 2008, well into her 70s, she scored perhaps one of her finest triumphs on stage as the wily,...
- 6/28/2011
- by Carole Woddis
- The Guardian - Film News
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