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Janet Suzman

June 2024

  • A Dry White Season.

    A Dry White Season review – Marlon Brando heads starry cast in ground-breaking apartheid drama

    This first Hollywood studio feature with a black female director is a compelling account of a South African who turns against the ruling caste

May 2023

  • The future? … Heathers, which now encourages singing along at specific performances.

    ‘They don’t know the rules’: actors hit back at theatregoers phoning, drinking and fighting

    What’s it like to star in a play when audience members watch football, ring friends, open lagers or pass round entire chickens? Actors vent their anger at the ‘Netflix mindset’ of the new post-Covid generation

November 2022

  • The Draughtsman’s Contract.

    The Draughtsman’s Contract review – Peter Greenaway’s cerebral intrigue still beguiles

    Greenaway’s arch tale of sexual and political manipulation has not lost its power to bewilder and compel

July 2022

  • ‘Always demanding the truth’ … Peter Brook at the Bouffes du Nord, Paris.

    ‘The greatest director the world has ever seen’ – actors salute Peter Brook

    Adrian Lester stripped back Hamlet with him, Janet Suzman can still hear the audience gasp, Glenda Jackson dug deep for the director and for Frances de la Tour he was incomparable

July 2020

  • Brave new furs ... Stewart as Prospero in the RSC’s The Tempest in 2006.

    'He's so strapping and virile': Patrick Stewart at 80 – by Shatner, McKellen, Tennant and more

    Horse rides in stockings, rehearsals in deep freezes, fights in string vests ... as Patrick Stewart hits 80, friends from Harriet Walter to Brian Blessed pay tribute to the great actor

June 2020

  • Ian McKellen as Coriolanus

    Hiddleston! McKellen! Olivier! Shakespeare's mighty Coriolanus – in pictures

    The Donmar Warehouse’s production of Coriolanus, starring Tom Hiddleston, is being streamed for National Theatre at Home. Here are some of the other stagings of the bold and bloody tragedy

May 2019

  • ‘What’s next, Methuselah?’ Ian McKellen, who turns 80 on Saturday.

    'I even loved his Twankey': Dench, Hopkins, Mirren and more on Ian McKellen at 80

    Wild parties, stunning performances, silhouette erections and marrying Patrick Stewart twice … as the actor turns 80, friends including Derek Jacobi, Janet Suzman, Michael Sheen, Bill Condon and Stephen Fry pay tribute

March 2019

  • Nathan McMullen and Kalungi Ssebandeke in Blood Knot by Athol Fugard at Orange Tree. Directed by Matthew Xia. (Opening 12-03-19)

    Athol Fugard's apartheid dramas still bite in our divided age

    New productions of A Lesson from Aloes and Blood Knot forcefully portray a world of claustrophobia, surveillance and the subtleties of racial exclusion

February 2019

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    Ranked
    The best Shakespeare films – ranked!

    Kenneth Branagh graduates from player to playwright this week for All is True, in which he plays an ailing Bard. But which big-screen Shakey is the greatest?

June 2017

  • ‘Unbearably poignant’ … Janet Suzman as Rose.

    Rose review – one-woman show takes on a century of Jewish history

    Janet Suzman’s dignified performance as a woman mourning a little girl becomes unbearably poignant in a Manchester still reeling from the loss of its own children

June 2015

  • Marques

    Greenslade
    Letter calls on Angolan president to drop charges against investigative journalist

    Journalists, actors, film-makers - and Tiffany the jewellers - support Rafael Marques after conviction for criminal defamation over his blood diamonds book

January 2015

  • Lee Oakes (Dr Feelgood) and Susan Wokoma (Tanika) in Three Birds by Janice Okoh at the Bush Theatre in 2013.

    Theatre blog
    Diversity is key to creativity – and British theatre's challenge for 2015

    Lyn Gardner: As the Stage 100 list shows, our theatres are dominated by the white, male middle classes – but we are finally waking up to the fact that true diversity, not box-ticking, can invigorate arts organisations

December 2014

  • Lenny Henry as Adam in Rudy's Rare Records by Danny Robins at Birmingham Rep earlier this year. Phot

    Who goes to the theatre – and who doesn’t

  • Janet Suzman and Khayalethu Anthony in Solomon and Marion – Anthony gave 'a magnificent performance'

    Theatre managements must invest in Asian and black writers

  • Janet Suzman, Khayalethu Anthony on stage

    Janet Suzman says black people aren’t interested in theatre. How ridiculous

    Bonnie Greer
  • Janet Suzman citywith Khayalethu Anthony in the South African play Solomon and Marion in 2013.

    Actor Janet Suzman criticised for calling theatre ‘a white invention’

November 2014

  • ‘Wonderful’: Janet Suzman with Khayalethu Anthony in Solomon and Marion.

    Solomon and Marion review – a knockout of a play

    Janet Suzman shows what great acting is in Lara Foot’s tense, moving two-hander set in South Africa, writes Kate Kellaway

June 2014

  • Janet Suzmanat the ICA 27 Nov 2012

    Janet Suzman Q&A – as it happened

    Janet Suzman was online to discuss her remarkable career – from Shakespeare to South Africa, Federico Fellini to Kim Cattrall, here are her answers to your questions

February 2014

  • 'That sort of acting is seamless' … Janet Suzman in 1971.

    Monologue: actors on acting
    Janet Suzman: how Paul Scofield's genius silenced a rehearsal studio

    I was Portia in Stratford one year when Paul walked in, dropped his coat and delivered a speech so masterful I would have played a grain of sand just to be in the same room as him

July 2013

  • Janet Suzman leaning on a railing at the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town

    Not so black and white: South Africa on stage

    Seven years ago, Dame Janet Suzman lost a friend and fellow actor to the violence in South Africa. Now she will star in a play inspired by his death. As attention turns to her country's future, Suzman talks to David Smith about a society on the edge

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