Sally Rooney’s Normal People gets a 12-part TV adaptation, Lana Del Rey performs her acclaimed new album, Top Gun 2 is finally given permission to land, and there’s new talent galore…
Thalissa Teixeira was hoping not to die in 2020. But she’s playing Bianca in Thomas Middleton’s
Women Beware Women at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, so sadly she will cop it at the end (no great spoiler – it is a Jacobean tragedy after all). She laughs. “At the audition I said: ‘Do we have to see another woman die?’ So many plays I’ve done, women die: in Yerma, Billie died; in Julie, Vanessa died; in Blood Wedding, Aoife died…”