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  The Independent

  Trump gets a bold Shakespearean twist in new play 'The 47th'

  A play that offers an audaciously Shakespearean take on recent and future U.S. politics is running at London's Old Vic theater

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  Politics

  The Guardian

  Sad! Is Donald Trump just too boring for a grand Shakespearean makeover?

  Bertie Carvel is brilliant in The 47th, Mike Bartlett’s ingenious play about the former US president, but the real parallel is not with the Bard’s kings but his hollow braggarts

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  Evening Standard

  The 47th, Old Vic review: A hideously transformative turn from Bertie Carvel as Trump

  3/5 Mike Bartlett’s blank-verse drama about Trump running for president (again) is eloquent and clever, but has surprisingly little to say

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  The Guardian

  The 47th review – Bertie Carvel is devilishly good but this Trumpian satire feels too soon

  Mike Bartlett’s script turns US politics into Shakepearean comedy but falls oddly flat despite magnetising performances

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  The Telegraph

  The 47th, Old Vic, review: Bertie Carvel’s perfect Trump impression can’t save this superficial play

  Rory Bremner does a wicked Donald Trump impression, but he has nothing on Bertie Carvel. The chameleonic 44-year-old British actor, who stole the show as Miss Trunchball in the original production of Matilda, incarnates the man who was America’s 45th president in Mike Bartlett’s satirical new play with such winning meticulousness, you’d swear the real McCoy had landed in SE1.

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  The Guardian

  ‘I get a chill’: Bertie Carvel on exploring the human side of Donald Trump

  ‘I get a chill’: Bertie Carvel on exploring the human side of Donald Trump. Of all the baddies Carvel has portrayed on stage and screen, this may be his most challenging yet. He reveals what lies beneath the bombast of The Donald

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  The Guardian

  ‘Shakespearean’ Donald Trump to be subject of play in blank verse

  ‘Shakespearean’ Donald Trump to be subject of play in blank verse. The 47th by Mike Bartlett stars Bertie Carvel as the ex-president making attempt to regain the White House

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  The Guardian

  The Tragedy of Macbeth to Eternals: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

  The Tragedy of Macbeth to Eternals: the seven best films to watch on TV this week. Denzel Washington is a magnificently brooding Macbeth in Joel Coen’s take on Shakespeare, while Marvel’s new team of super-powered aliens save humanity. Plus, Planes, Trains and Automobiles

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  Entertainment

  Evening Standard

  The Crown series five halts filming after Covid outbreak on set

  The Crown has halted production following a Covid-19 outbreak on set, it has been reported. Bosses were forced to stop filming the fifth series of the hit Netflix show after at least eight crew members tested positive on Wednesday. A Netflix spokesman said: “The Crown finished filming one day earlier than planned for the Christmas break following a few positive cases within the team, thus ensuring others’ safety and so that everyone on production can enjoy a festive break with their loved ones

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  The Independent

  The Crown series five halts filming as eight crew members test positive for Covid

  Netflix show is latest production to be hit by virus

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