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Kathryn Hunter

September 2023

  • Brilliantly brought out the character’s volatility … Glenda Jackson (King Lear) in King Lear.

    Is King Lear a mountain or molehill? How to play the tragic monarch and ‘stupid old fart’

    Paul Scofield, Ian McKellen and Glenda Jackson have all redefined Shakespeare’s unpredictable ruler – a role in which actors usually succeed

October 2022

  • Complicite's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Research Trip to Poland, Simon McBurney, director, and Olga Tokarczuk, writer

    Mud, murder and homemade schnapps: eco-thriller Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead roars back

    As Complicité’s Simon McBurney brings Olga Tokarczuk’s feminist detective story to the stage, the pair discuss its eccentric sleuth, isolated landscape and climate alarm

September 2022

  • Marcello Magni in The Valley of Astonishment, written and directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, at the Young Vic in London in 2014.

    Theatre world pays tribute after death of Marcello Magni

    Italian actor, who often worked with his wife Kathryn Hunter, was a co-founder of Complicité, a gifted clown and a voiceover artist for Pingu

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

  • Safiyya Ingar and Anoushka Chadha in Two Billion Beats at the Orange Tree.

    The week in theatre: Two Billion Beats; Running With Lions; The Forest; The Chairs – review

  • Marcello Magni and Kathryn Hunter in The Chairs.

    The Chairs review – slapstick sadness from a spine-shiveringly good duo

December 2021

  • Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in The Tragedy of Macbeth, which premiered at the New York film festival.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    The Tragedy of Macbeth review – Denzel Washington delivers a noirish nightmare

  • Actor Kathryn Hunter. London 29/11/21

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Actor Kathryn Hunter: ‘I gravitated towards male roles because men are given more interesting things to do’

July 2020

  • Come, Been and Gone at the Barbican

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    Caesar, Cilla and a superstar cast: Tristram Kenton's stage archive – in pictures

    Tristram Kenton’s photographs have accompanied reviews in the Guardian for more than 30 years. Ahead of a series of themed galleries, we open up his archive with 40 fabulous shots

January 2019

  • Jerzy Grotowski

    Kathryn Hunter: how theatre guru Jerzy Grotowski changed my life

    They never met but the brilliant Polish theatre-maker and theorist had a huge influence on Kathryn Hunter. On the 20th anniversary of his death, she celebrates his radical methods

December 2018

  • RSC - Timon of Athens 2018 Press publicity production image Credit: Simon Annand

    Timon of Athens review – Kathryn Hunter lays waste to wealth worship

    A searing central performance lays waste to Shakespeare’s men’s-club vision in this searing study of human greed

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

September 2018

  • Sophie Okonedo and Ralph Fiennes in Antony and Cleopatra

    Cleopatras comin' atcha: queens of the Nile on stage and screen - in pictures

    Sophie Okonedo plays Cleopatra in a new production at the National Theatre in London. From Liz Taylor to Mark Rylance, here’s a reminder of the other stars who have ruled as the Egyptian leader

May 2018

  • Kathryn Hunter (Boo) in One Green Bottle, Written & Directed by Hideki Noda @ Soho Theatre (Opening 30-04-18) ©Tristram Kenton 04-18 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    One Green Bottle review – apocalyptic farce mixes Beckett with kabuki

    Kathryn Hunter is the patriarch in Hideki Noda’s strange, yet ultimately moving, family tale that draws on Japanese tradition

April 2017

  • Out of Blixen at Print Room at the Coronet kathryn yoga.jpg

    Out of Blixen review – patchwork portrait with stilts, knives and bloody gloves

    Kathryn Hunter is magnetic as Out of Africa author Karen Blixen, but this busy staging of four of her stories fails to illuminate her enigmatic character

February 2017

  • Kathryn Hunter as Bernarda in The House of Bernarda Alba.

    The House of Bernarda Alba review – Hunter is a domestic dictator in anti-fascist classic

    Graeae use British Sign Language to bring new depths to Federico García Lorca’s play, with Kathryn Hunter on vicious form

January 2017

  • The House of Bernarda Alba at Royal Exchange Manchester

    Kathryn Hunter rules the roost as Lorca's Bernarda Alba makes a bold return

    Graeae and the Royal Exchange are staging Lorca’s classic in a show that creatively incorporates BSL, captioning and audio description and takes a great play to another level

September 2016

  • The madness of power … Kathryn Hunter in The Emperor at the Young Vic, London.

    The Emperor review – majestic Kathryn Hunter gives 10 great performances

    Hunter is a strutting minister one minute and valet de chambre the next in this shrewd and resonant account of the Ethiopian autocrat’s fall from grace

February 2016

  • Filling boots: Ellie Kendrick and Kathryn Hunter in Cyrano de Bergerac at the Southwark Playhouse.

    Cyrano de Bergerac review – a nose without a point

    Kathryn Hunter plays the lovelorn French nobleman in this all-female production, but nothing is gained by the gender swap
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