Feed: Entertainment News Sky
Posted on: Friday, April 12, 2013 20:55
Author: Entertainment News Sky
Subject: ER Star Alex Kingston To Play Lady Macbeth
Alex Kingston, the actress best known for her role in ER, will play Lady Macbeth opposite Sir Kenneth Branagh in his new production. Kingston, who also plays River Song in Doctor Who, will appear in the play, which is being staged in a deconsecrated church and marks Sir Kenneth's return to Shakespeare after more than a decade. Her previous roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company include Hero in Much Ado About Nothing, Cordelia in King Lear and Jaquenetta in Love's Labour's Lost.
She also played Desdemona in Othello for Birmingham Rep and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. Sir Kenneth last appeared in one of the Bard's plays in Richard III at the Sheffield Crucible in 2002. He has brought a number of Shakespeare's plays to the big screen, most memorably Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing, in which he played Benedict opposite Emma Thompson's Beatrice. The couple later married but divorced in 1995.
His last adaptation was As You Like It in 2006. The sell-out production, which is part of this year's Manchester International Festival, will also be shown on a big screen in the city centre. Other performers announced for the festival include Massive Attack, Maxine Peake and The xx. The festival, which runs from July 4 to 21, has previously attracted names including Bjork and Damon Albarn. |
Kingston with her Doctor Who co-stars 
Sir Kenneth Branagh received his knighthood last year YOUR COMMENT
