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My blog has quite a lot of posts about Samuel West (Julius Caesar, On Chesil Beach and Darkest Hour) and Charles Edwards (My Fair Lady Australian tour and Henry IX).

Sunday 28 February 2010

Theatre - The Pride. Lucy Prebble. Theatre - The Real Thing. Samuel West - Radio - Bomber. Dan Stevens - Audio - War Horse. BBC Radio.

  • Andrea Riseborough, Ben Whishaw and Hugh Dancy were on the Leonard Lopate Show discussing The Pride (via mcctheater) [link]
  • Lucy Prebble profile from the Telegraph [link]
  • Toby Stephens, Hattie Morahan and Fenella Woolgar will star in The Real Thing at the Old Vic, 21 April-5 June 2010 (previews from 10 April) [link]
  • Bomber and War Horse are featured in this article from the Guardian. Here are excerpts:
    "...I came across this classic [Bomber] and can report that it's just as riveting second time round...
    ...ever since I heard him read AL Kennedy's Day, I have become a loyal follower of Dan Stevens, he of the chameleon voice that makes you laugh or cry at a stroke. No need to ask what Stevens reading this heart-rending story [War Horse] did to me..."
  • BBC Radio
    • Andrew Scott and Dave Fishley star in The Wire Look Closer [link]
    • Lorcan Cranitch and Alex Jennings star in the Afternoon Play Shakespeare's Vortigern and Rowena (via the AJ Diaries) [link]
    • Timothy Spall and Cheryl Campbell star in Jagged Prayer [link]
    • Damian Lewis narrates Agent Zig Zag [link]

Thursday 25 February 2010

Samuel West - Narration - Lines of Flight

Lines of Flight will be screened 5 and 6 March at the Llanberis Mountain Film Festival. Details are available here.

Theatre - Enron

A video about Enron from the Guardian featuring Lucy Prebble, Sam West and Rupert Goold (via The Corner Shop PR) [link]

Saturday 20 February 2010

London Film Critics' Circle awards. Television - Downton Abbey. BBC Radio.

[updated 27 February]
  • Winners at the London Film Critics' Circle awards include Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche (Screenwriter of the year - In the Loop); Colin Firth (British actor of the year - A Single Man) and Carey Mulligan (British actress of the year - An Education) (via the Telegraph) [link]
  • The cast of Downton Abbey includes Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Dan Stevens and Michelle Dockery (via Baz Bamigboye's Daily Mail column) [link]
  • BBC Radio
    • Toby Jones and Sheila Reid star in The Wire Life on the Edges [link]
    • Elli Wantage, James Frain and Simon Russell Beale star in Friday's Child [link]
    • Robin Ellis, Hugh Grant and Sian Phillips star in Cover Her Face [link]
    • Tessa Nicholson, Joseph Cohen-Cole, Melissa Advani, Rhys Jennings, Kate Layden and Emerald O'Hanrahan star in Ruby Baby [link]

Thursday 18 February 2010

Charles Edwards - Theatre - A Midsummer Night's Dream

[updated 17 March 2011]

Reviews

Financial Times
"...Dench is well matched by Charles Edwards' proud, suave Oberon, who brings a touch of smugness to his plans to fool his estranged queen, then suffers a crisis of conscience..."

The Guardian
"...Charles Edwards is a particularly fine Oberon who brings out the sadistic delight with which the fractious immortal torments the fairy queen... Edwards conveys a proper sense of guilt at the effectiveness of his ruse..."

The Independent
"...Charles Edwards doing a nice send up of a square-jawed matinee idol with supernatural touches as Oberon..."

Daily Express
"...Charles Edwards is a wonderfully scheming Oberon..."

Pictures

Production (Nobby Clark)
Press night (guests included John Simm, Timothy West and Prunella Scales)

Theatre - The Pride. Theatre - Enron. Dan Stevens - Film - The Winter Queen.

Wednesday 17 February 2010

Theatre - The Pride

[updated 19 March 2011]

Interviews

Andrea Riseborough - TDF (via mcctheater) and WWD TDF|WWD
Ben Whishaw - New York Times (via mcctheater) [link]
Hugh Dancy interviews 1|2|3|4

Reviews

Associated Press
"...There is a fierce intelligence to Whishaw's extraordinary double performances... Dancy is equally fine... [Riseborough captures] the woman's conflicted emotions with devastating accuracy. And there is some sharply detailed work by the evening's fourth actor, Adam James, who portrays a variety of small roles..."

Backstage
"...Hugh Dancy, Ben Whishaw, and Andrea Riseborough confidently meet the unique challenge of simultaneously underlining the similarities and differences in their dual roles... Rounding out the company is the charismatic Adam James..."

Theatermania
"...The majority of kudos should go to the wonderful cast, who give detailed performances to differentiate the way they play their roles in each time period, while also showing enough similarities to make it clear that we are still seeing the same people (or at any rate, alternative versions of them)..."

Curtain Up
"...Dancy, Whishaw and Riseborough subtly and convincingly portray the time-propelled shifts in their characters... Adam James is a potent cast addition..."

Entertainment news

  • Blog posts by David Morrissey about his BAFTA tour (via David Morrissey Online) [link]
  • Bill Nighy stars in Richard Curtis' short film about the Robin Hood Tax [link]
  • Carey Mulligan, Emily Mortimer and Nicholas Hoult & Matthew Goode interviews carey|emily|nicholas & matthew
  • Measure for Measure
    • Anna Maxwell Martin interview [link]
    • Photo gallery from Broadway World [link]
  • Scans from Total Film about Prince of Persia, starring Gemma Arterton and Jake Gyllenhaal [link]
  • Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen and Jim Sturgess will star in The Promised Land directed by Michael Winterbottom [link
  • Pictures of Ruth Wilson from the whatsonstage.com awards 1|2|3|4|5|6
  • Vanessa Redgrave will receive a BAFTA fellowship [link
  • Rosamund Pike has been photographed for Temperley London's New York installation [link]
  • Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick and Bill Nighy wil star in the romantic comedy The Chalet Girl [link]
  • In the Loop
    • Won Best Screenplay at the Evening Standard Film Awards [link]
    • Download of the screenplay (via AIannucci) [link]

Saturday 13 February 2010

Charles Edwards - Theatre - A Midsummer Night's Dream. BBC Radio.

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream production photos from Broadway World [link]
  • BBC Radio
    • Geoffrey Palmer and Alex Jennings star in the Drama on 3 An Ideal Husband [link]
    • Andrew Scott stars in the Saturday Play Slaughterhouse 5 [link]
    • Tony Osoba and Bill Nighy star in Enquiry [link]
    • Benedict Cumberbatch narrates Casanova [link]
    • David Tennant stars in the Saturday Play Murder in Samarkand [link]

Samuel West - Eastside Educational Trust charity auction


Photo: screencap by me. Video source: Eastside Educational Trust


Sam's contribution to the Eastside Educational Trust Bonhams charity auction (30 September 2010 at Bonhams Auction House, 101 New Bond St London W1) is a morning of birdwatching at Rainham Marshes, and lunch afterwards (via @EastsideLondon).

Friday 12 February 2010

The Stage New Year party. Valentine Voices. Ruth Wilson - Theatre - Through A Glass Darkly. Hattie Morahan - Television - Lark Rise. Samuel West.

  • Amanda Drew and Sam West attended The Stage’s New Year party last Friday. A picture of Sam from the party is here.
  • Keira Knightley, Romola Garai and Rosamund Pike have read poems for Valentine Voices, a partnership between the Times and the Poetry Archive (via the Independent) [link]
  • Ruth will star in Through A Glass Darkly at the Almeida, opening in June (via Baz Bamigboye's Daily Mail column) [link]
  • Hattie plays Enid in episode 8 of series 3 of Lark Rise to Candleford which will be broadcast 28 February [link]
  • A short Sam interview from Completely London magazine about New River Walk in Islington [link]

Tuesday 9 February 2010

Radio - Words and Music. Theatre - A View From the Bridge. Theatre - A Streetcar Named Desire. Theatre - Arcadia.

  • Ruth Wilson and Toby Jones are the readers for Words and Music this week [link]

  • Olivier Award nominations include:
    Three Days of Rain. Best Actor (James McAvoy), Best Revival (Jamie Lloyd), Best Lighting Design (Jon Clark).
    A View From the Bridge. Best Actor (Ken Stott), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Hayley Atwell), Best Director (Lindsay Posner), Best Revival (Lindsay Posner).
    A Streetcar Named Desire. Best Actress (Rachel Weisz), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Ruth Wilson), Best Revival (Rob Ashford).
    The Misanthrope. Best Actress (Keira Knightley), Best Revival (Thea Sharrock), Best Costume Design (Amy Roberts).
    Burnt by the Sun. Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Michelle Dockery), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Rory Kinnear), Best Lighting Design (Mark Henderson).
    Arcadia. Best Revival (David Leveaux).

Theatre - Enron

[updated 9 February]

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  • Enron's Olivier Award nominations are:
    Best Actor (Samuel West)
    Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Tim Pigott-Smith)
    Best New Play (Lucy Prebble)
    Best Director (Rupert Goold)
    Best Lighting Design (Mark Henderson)
    Best Set Design (Anthony Ward)
  • Tim Pigott-Smith was interviewed on The World at One (interview starts at approximately 25:00, via The Corner Shop PR) [link]

Sunday 7 February 2010

Theatre - Enron

The Enron press trailer is here (via Enron-West End Run and FilmographySam)

Screencaps

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Entertainment news

  • Production for Happy Feet 2 will take place in Sydney [link]
  • Carey Mulligan and Colin Firth are in Vanity Fair's Hollywood Portfolio which is in the March 2010 issue (via ONTD). Carey is also on the cover with people such as Rebecca Hall and Mia Wasikowska (via Just Jared).
  • Shutter Island and Red Hill will screen at the Berlin International Film Festival [link]
  • Damian Lewis, Michael Adams, Rebecca Hall and Toby Schmitz interviews damian|michael|rebecca|toby
  • Cemetery Junction poster (via gervsmerchpilk) and trailer poster|trailer
  • John Malkovich will star in The Infernal Comedy at the Barbican next year [link]
  • Bill Nighy will guest star in the next series of Doctor Who, in an episode written by Richard Curtis (via The Medium is Not Enough) [link]
  • Information for BAFTA's David Morrissey on tour from David's official website [link]
  • Marion Potts will be the next artistic director of the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne 1|2
  • Casting for the miniseries adaptation of Cloudstreet [link]

Saturday 6 February 2010

Dan Stevens - Audio - The Cradle of the Snake. Hayley Atwell - Audio - The Whispering Forest. Theatre - Enron. BBC Radio.

Friday 5 February 2010

Glamour Women of the Year. Samuel West. Narration - Lines of Flight. Judgement day.

  • Romola Garai, Carey Mulligan, Gemma Arterton, Hayley Atwell and Rebecca Hall have been nominated for Glamour's Women of the Year awards [link]

  • Lines of Flight will be screened as part of the programme Adventure Medley 1 at the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival [link]
  • Video of Sam from Tony Blair's Judgement Day (via FilmographySam) [link]

Wednesday 3 February 2010

Samuel West - Narration - Lines of Flight

Lines of Flight won the Best Film on Mountain Culture (B.C.M.C. Award) at the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival. Below is the jury statement from the festival website:
"Although, this film shows mostly free solo climbers, the jury decided to award this film in the mountain culture category. This beautifully made film avoids every cliché of rock climbing and offers a different view on climbing. It proposes a clear connection between people from a specific area, in this case the Peak District in the UK and its history of mining and textile manufacturing."
A clip from the film can be viewed here.

Links

Sal Brown (writer/director/producer) [link]
IMDB [link]
Brown Bear Productions [link]

Samuel West - Film - Pandaemonium

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Screencaps

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Theatre - The Pride. Lucy Prebble - Theatre - Enron. Samuel West - Narration - Murder on the Lake. Film - Oscar nominations.

Monday 1 February 2010

Entertainment news

  • Two promos for The Ricky Gervais Show [link]
  • The AFI awards will take place in Sydney from 2011 [link]
  • SAG awards winners [link]
  • Billie Piper, Alexandra Silber, Colin Firth, Edgar Wright, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai interviews billie|alexandra|colin|edgar|saoirse|romola
  • Alfred Hitchcock is mentioned in the Independent's feature "100 years of movies" [link]
  • Romola Garai and Matthew Goode announced (via Capturing Romola) the BAFTA film awards nominations, which include:
    An Education. Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Director (Lone Scherfig), Adapted Screenplay (Nick Hornby), Leading Actress (Carey Mulligan), Supporting Actor (Alfred Molina), Costume Design (Odile Dicks-Mireaux), Make Up and Hair (Lizzie Yianni Georgiou).
    In the Loop. Outstanding British Film, Adapted Screenplay (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche).
    A Single Man. Leading Actor (Colin Firth).
  • The Australian film Animal Kingdom has won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance [link]
  • Ralph Myers will be the next artistic director of Company B Belvoir in Sydney [link]