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| This website is intended primarily as a tribute to Sir Antony Sher's career, and does not aim to be a "news" site. |
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| However, it's always nice to highlight Sir Antony's current and most-recent work, as well as bringing news of future projects as soon as they are confirmed. |
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| GOD ON TRIAL |
| Antony Sher, Rupert Graves, Stephen Dillane and Stellen Skarsgardare to star in new drama for BBC2 based on the true-life attempt by Auschwitz inmates to put God on trial. |
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| God on Trial will be set over a single day in which the concentration camp prisoners test their faith by putting God in the dock for turning his back on the Jewish people in their hour of need. |
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| Antony plays Akiba, a Polish rabbi. |
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| God on Trial will be screened on BBC2 at 9 p.m. on 3rd September 2008. Don't miss it! |
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| THE TEMPEST |
| RSC Associate Artist Antony Sher returns to the RSC to play Prospero in The Tempest. This new production, in association with South Africa's Baxter Theatre Centre, continues the legacy of the 2006 Complete Works Festival as the RSC develops creative partnerships with theatre companies from around the world. John Kani, who played Claudius in Baxter's 2006 sell out production of Hamlet in the Swan Theatre, will also return to Stratford to play Caliban. |
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| Antony Sher's many acclaimed performances for the RSC include Iago in Othello (2004), the title role in Macbeth (1999) and his seminal Richard III (1984). Antony, himself born in Cape Town, and the director Janice Honeyman first conceived the idea for this production eight years ago, drawing on the music, dance and ritual of Africa, set against a colourful landscape that is vast, beautiful and powerful. The production will open in Cape Town before transferring to Stratford-upon-Avon in February 2009. |
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| Antony says: 'I'm extremely pleased to be working with Janice Honeyman again - she directed me in the RSC production of Fugard's Hello and Goodbye. It's also been a lifelong ambition of mine to be onstage with the legendary south African actor John Kani. So this feels like all my dreams coming true.' |
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| The Tempest runs at The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon from 14 February to 14 March 2009 after transferring from South Africa. BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW! |
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