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The Guardian - Culture Edit Unfollow Shakespeare's tragic twins memorialised in the Bard's resting place by Vanessa May 1, 2022 Maggie O’Farrell will place rosemary at Stratford grave to honour the lost boy who inspired her novel Hamnet The novelist Maggie O’Farrell will travel to Stratford-upon-Avon next weekend bearing two branches of rosemary cut from her own garden. A plant traditionally associated with remembrance, as Ophelia notes in Hamlet, its flowering sprigs will be laid on the ground as tributes to Shakespeare’s twin children, Judith and Hamnet. For centuries, they have had no visible memorial in the town where they lived and died. But all that changes on Saturday morning when two rowan trees will be planted in the graveyard of Stratford’s Holy Trinity church to mark their very different lives. O’Farrell will then place her gift of rosemary at the foot of each tree. Continue reading... Continue Reading The week in theatre: Jerusalem; The Corn Is Green; Marys Seacole by Susannah Clapp May 1, 2022 Apollo; Lyttelton; Donmar Warehouse, London Spellbinding Mark Rylance returns as the anarchic Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron; Nicola Walker hits the mark in Dominic Cooke’s brilliant Emlyn Williams revival; and in praise of Mary Seacole After Covid, comfort in the stalls. That, at any rate, was last year’s favourite theory: that post-pandemic theatre, seeking security by turning to familiar musicals and plays, was likely to go tepid. Here is a week that proves the conclusion wrong. Two revivals – one restaging of a brilliant 13-year-old production, one complete remaking of an 82-year-old play – are both in turn rousing and disturbing. Both are unmissable. Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem first burst into the Royal Court in 2009, bringing a luscious roll of language, a group of wayward spirits new to the stage and a 3D sensuality (smells reeked off the boards). Mark Rylance’s performance as Johnny “Rooster” Byron proved to be one of the most magnificent acting events of the past 20 years. Continue reading... Continue Reading

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