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Hail, Caesar!, Don Quixote, Thirteen, English Touring Opera

Arts news with Kirsty Lang, including a review of the Coen brothers' Hail, Caesar!, David Thelfall and James Fenton on Don Quixote and the creator of ±«Óătv Three's Thirteen.

George Clooney stars in the Coen brothers' latest film Hail, Caesar!, a comedic homage to Hollywood's Golden Age in the early 1950s. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh joins Kirsty Lang to review the film which also features Josh Brolin, Tilda Swinton, Scarlett Johansson and Ralph Fiennes. It's in cinemas from today, certificate 12A.

David Threlfall has left the bad-lands of Manchester in Shameless for those of La Mancha, playing the errant knight in James Fenton's adaptation of Don Quixote for the Royal Shakespeare Company. David tells Kirsty why the nutty knight is an important figure for us today, and James Fenton reveals how, in telling his story, Cervantes invented the novel, and the modern novel, all at once. Don Quixote is on at the Swan Theatre in Stratford until 21st May.

In the opening scene of ±«Óătv3's first online drama, Thirteen, Ivy Moxam escapes from the cellar, her prison for the last thirteen years. After a desperate 999 call from a phone box, she is picked up by the police and taken to be interviewed. This 5-part drama, also shown on ±«Óătv2, focuses on what happens next, how Ivy struggles to find her identity and re-establish relationships with her family and friends. Creator and writer, Marnie Dickens, joins Kirsty in the studio.

And English Touring Opera's Artistic Director James Conway on taking 3 large scale operas to 21 towns around the country, including Gluck's Iphigenie and the first UK staging of Donizetti's Pia de Tolomei. English Touring Opera's Season starts tomorrow at the Hackney Empire and finishes in Carlisle in June.

Producer: Dixi Stewart.

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Chapters

  • Hail Caeser

    Duration: 04:07

  • Don Quixote

    Duration: 08:46

  • Thirteen

    Duration: 06:01

  • IphigĂ©nie en Tauride by Gluck

    Duration: 08:35

Hail, Caesar!

Hail, Caesar!
is in cinemas from today, certificate 12A.

Left and Main Image - Credit: Universal Pictures

Don Quixote

Don Quixote
is running at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon until 21 May.

Photo Credit: Helen Maybanks © RSC

Thirteen

Thirteen
The first episode of  is available on iPlayer now and will be on ±«Óătv Two on Sunday 6 March at 10pm.

Photo Credit: ±«Óătv/Todd Anthony

Iphigénie en Tauride by Gluck

Iphigénie en Tauride by Gluck
The English Touring Opera's production of  is at the Hackney Empire in London on Saturday 5 March and touring the UK until June.

Photo Credit: Richard Hubert Smith

Credits

Presenter Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
Interviewed Guest David Threlfall
Interviewed Guest James Fenton
Interviewed Guest Marnie Dickens
Interviewed Guest James Conway
Producer Dixi Stewart

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