All establish tidy catalogues by which we can measure and modulate our lives. 2025 recorded the highest number in almost a decade — 190 — if you include incidents in carparks and non public highways. But the stage version, which premiered at Stratford-upon-Avon and was staged off Broadway in Brooklyn, foregrounds a racial dimension which is unstated on screen. In an interview on New Year’s Eve, O’Farrell said:The film is a fraternal twin to the book, not an identical one. “One reason why Shakespeare has endured is because everybody has their own version of him inside their head.”That is key.

Source: Irish Examiner January 03, 2026 00:19 UTC