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Lend me your ears: great Shakespearean actors given hi-tech talking portraits by Michael Billington

A radical new exhibition celebrates stars including Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart by combining subtly moving artworks with their own voices. The results are uncanny Great actors have always attracted artists. I think of Edmund Kean looking wild-eyed and demonic as Sir Giles Overreach painted by George Clint; Ellen Terry as a green-gowned Lady Macbeth preserved by John Singer Sargent; and Ruskin Spear's study in o…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM on November 18, 2024

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