His remarkable and prolific career has seen Branagh breathe new life into Shakespeare on stage and screen, and open up the work of Shakespeare to a global audience. This traveling exhibition comes to dlr LexIcon, courtesy of the British Council and Queen’s University Belfast and is part of Shakespeare Lives, an unprecedented global programme of events celebrating the work of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and commemorating the enduring appeal of the Bard 400 years after his death.

The exhibition features rarely seen artefacts from the Sir Kenneth Branagh Archive in Special Collections, McClay Library at Queen’s University Belfast, from his debut as Henry V with the Royal Shakespeare Company aged just 23 to his Oscar-nominated screen adaptation of Hamlet, and beyond.

A number of short re-interpretations of extracts of Shakespeare’s work, especially created by the British Council will be shown on a loop in the Studio Theatre on the following dates from 2.00-3.00pm: Tuesdays 19th and 26th July and Tuesday 9th August. These include re-interpretations of Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Twelfth Night.