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Actors trained during pandemic lack vocal power and range, says RSC leader

Daniel Evans says young drama graduates who learned voice work online missed out on the physical presence of theatre trainingYoung actors who trained at drama school during the pandemic are struggling to project their voices and lack rangebecause they were denied the crucial “experience of full voca...

Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett review – remembering terrible men

In the latest novel from the acclaimed avant garde author, the narrator considers the impact of the relationships she’s left behind“English, strictly speaking, is not my first language by the way,” Claire-Louise Bennett wrote in her first book, 2015’s Pond, a series of essayistic stories by an autof...

The Secret of Me review – documentary tells tragic story of childhood intersex reassignment surgery

Grace Hughes-Hallett’s film focuses on the story of Jim Ambrose, who was raised female after he was born with atypical genitalsAlthough this documentary spreads its net wide to encompass the recent history of intersex identity in the US, mostly it centres around the story of Jim Ambrose, who until h...

‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom

From Rocky Horror to the Muppets, Curry’s extraordinary career made him world-famous. Then, a stroke left him paralysed. The actor talks about his cocaine years, his friendship with David Bowie – and the moment his mother came at him with a knife‘It’s difficult not to see it as a kind of finale,” sa...

‘An unseen side of Black Britain’: memories of 1980s Bradford – in pictures

Pinball, boomboxes and vintage cars! Victor Wedderburn’s photographs capture the joys – and struggles – of the era for the city’s immigrant communities Continue reading...

TV tonight: Rylan Clark goes witch-hunting in Elizabethan Essex

Prof Alice Roberts joins Rylan to investigate witch trials in Chelmsford. Plus: an exposé of the international dog-fighting trade. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, Sky HistoryRylan Clark returns to his old Essex stomping ground of Chelmsford – which he calls “witchcraft ground zero” – for this...