Cush Jumbo
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Bear Snores On review – characterful creatures learn the importance of homeFun songs and exciting immersive touches delight children and adults alike in a lively picture book adaptation from actor Cush Jumbo and Katy Sechiari
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The week in TV: The Brothers Sun; Criminal Record; Break Point; I Am Andrew Tate – reviewMichelle Yeoh kicks ass in a breathless Taiwanese gangster comedy; Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo lead a perfectly paced London police drama; and Netflix’s tennis doc returns with a few aces up its sleeve
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Criminal Record review – Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo are great alone. Together, they’re mesmerising We need an award for best joint performance and we need it now, for these two and their sublime turns in a clever, timely corrupt cop thriller
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Criminal Record to Echo: the seven best shows to stream this weekCush Jumbo and Peter Capaldi clash in an engrossing police drama, and one of the MCU’s darkest shows arrives at last. Plus: Netflix’s answer to The Traitors!
The week in theatre: Macbeth; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; Ulster American – review
Sound and fury, signifying something: what made Macbeth so popular in 2023?
Macbeth review – David Tennant thrills in this high-concept production
‘I studied the play in school – I hated it’: Cush Jumbo and David Tennant on playing the Macbeths
Cush Jumbo to join David Tennant in Macbeth at London’s Donmar Warehouse
The actor, who has previously starred as Hamlet at the Young Vic, is to play Lady Macbeth among a wave of star-powered Shakespeare productions this year
Gilly Gilly review – Cush Jumbo’s searing play about abuse let down by mundane details
Delivered with rage, as a woman reckoning with her past, this audio drama written and performed by Jumbo takes too long to get to the point, stalling in domesticity
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Stay Close review – your new Netflix binge-watch? This irresistible thrillerJames Nesbitt is a brooding detective in this Harlan Coben thriller, in which Cush Jumbo is dragged back into her shady old life. You won’t be able to turn it off
Joseph Marcell: ‘I tried to get Will Smith to do Shakespeare instead of Independence Day’
He was adored as Geoffrey the butler in the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Now, as he stars opposite Cush Jumbo in Hamlet, the actor discusses stardom, being one of the first Black Othellos – and why Smith should play Mark Antony
The week in theatre: Hamlet; The Mirror and the Light; What If If Only
Cush Jumbo is a perfect prince, Ben Miles bows out as Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell, while Caryl Churchill gets to the heart of love and loss in under 20 minutes
Hamlet review – Cush Jumbo is a remarkable prince
Greg Hersov’s sleek production focuses on familial grief, unfolds with the pace of a thriller and is full of fresh humour and chemistry
Autumn arts preview 2021
Hamlet, Cabaret and a fistful of Romeos: the best theatre, comedy and dance of autumn 2021Adrian Dunbar cast alongside Cush Jumbo in Hamlet at Young Vic
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: The Beast Must Die; Before We Die; The Great British Photography Challenge; BreedersTV review
The Beast Must Die review – Cush Jumbo plots grief-fuelled revengeCush Jumbo: ‘He’s doing less screen time but being paid three times more? Er, no!’
Young Vic to livestream all future productions, says artistic director
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Observer TV reviewsThe week in TV: The Brothers Sun; Criminal Record; Break Point; I Am Andrew Tate – reviewMichelle Yeoh kicks ass in a breathless Taiwanese gangster comedy; Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo lead a perfectly paced London police drama; and Netflix’s tennis doc returns with a few aces up its sleeve
