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Romeo Coates “Between you and me…”

Where there's a Will …

AS PLANS GO AHEAD for Sir Ian McKellen to portray an ancient-looking Hamlet in the “age blind” Theatre Royal Windsor production this summer, might it be easier for everyone concerned if the Bard’s plays are now kept away from the young altogether?

What with the themes of Shakespeare’s work apparently proving increasingly “problematic” for the youthful sensibilities of dreary modern Britain, surely better they find a playwright of their own?

MEAN-SPIRITED CYNICS enjoy snidely pointing out that the fragrant Jenny Seagrove “somehow” manages to regularly turn up in productions of longtime partner and national treasure Bill Kenwright. Such

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