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If anyone were to take in the great works of Shakespeare and make it more musical for the current generation of new age art lovers to appreciate, it would most definitely be Dagenham's home town hero, with a hard hitting feel to the English language. MC
Devlin with film and stage actor
Joseph Fiennes take on a Shakespeare sonnet to modernise the life within it with a new approach. The Hyundai powered New Thinker's Index piece features the two discussing Shakespeare's Sonnet 129 and revamping it along side producer/engineer
Lewi White. We're all up for the fusion of art. Check out Devlin and Joseph Fiennes create a track together below.
News broke out this summer that Tupac Shakur's music will reincarnate as the score for a musical fit for Broadway, and now theatre director Kenny Leon confirms that a cast is in place.
Having recently watched the film version of A Clockwork Orange, I was excited to see how the timeless classic was adopted by the 
A cult novel that still has as much relevance today as it did when it was first imagined in 1962, A Clockwork Orange has been adapted many times; most famously by Stanley Kubrick in the 1971 film. New Yorkers Ed DuRante (words) and Fred Carl (music) are the latest to embark on this endeavor, promising to return to the original source of Anthony Burgess’ book and most importantly, his last chapter of redemption and hope which was missing from the first editions of the novel and the famous film.
The dream team of playwright/actor Arinze Kene and director Ché Walker are back at The Oval Theatre, South London with Little Baby Jesus.
First staged at the Oval as part of 2010’s 33% Season this coming-of-age tale with a twist is comprised of three separate but occasionally intertwining monologues by Kehinde (Fiston Barek), Joanne (Seroca Davis) and Rugrat (Akemnji Ndifornyen). The trio share animated anecdotes about the trials and tribulations that hurl them towards adulthood, ready or not.