Digby richards biography of william shakespeare
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Digby George Richards – Dig Richards
One of the forgotten Dig Richards.
For reasons only known to the maker this week my thoughts focused on Aussie singer Dig Richards and I was moved to honour his memory.
I recall going into a recording studio in McMahons Point Sydney to record a J&B television voice over when the Labels representative told me the news that Dig Richards had died. The bloke was never known for his tack and I went to the phone to make sure the news was correct. Bottom line is that I never trusted this bloke and years later he stayed at my Melbourne apartment and helped himself to my then rare record collection plus a water ski. So my instinct was right, check him out.
Sadly Dig had passed away and my first thought was ,”but he was so young” he was only 42 few, including myself, were aware that he had suffered from pancreatic cancer for over twelve months.
In the record industry he’d dropped off the charts his last charted single was the 1975 re-recording of” Rain Coat in the River” a record that became his best known hit from 1962.
Dig was one of the band of artists who became the backbone of the Australian music Industry and we’d met during a recording of The Channel 7 Johnny O’Keefe Show. JOK had a big call for him and he was a fr
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Why Shakespeare's Richard III became a controversial villain
Features correspondent
The notorious monarch is one of the Bard's most iconic characters. But the truth about him is increasingly contested, as is the depiction of his disability, writes Tracey Sinclair.
Richard III has long been a figure of fascination – inspiring the play that remains one of William Shakespeare's most performed works on stage and screen, regularly staged on both sides of the Atlantic. It's a role that has been tackled by famous actors from Laurence Olivier to Denzel Washington, with Black Panther star Danai Gurira the latest high-profile figure to take the role on the New York stage.
However, in the UK a production is currently running that is considered a landmark in the history of the role: it is the first time the 61-year-old Royal Shakespeare Company has cast a disabled actor as lead in the play. Richard – whose disability is not specified but is described in the play as having a limp, a withered arm and being "bunchback'd" – is one of literature's most famous disabled characters, but has only rarely been played by disabled actors.
Arthur Hughes, who plays Richard, has hitherto been
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William Shakespeare
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