Radio - Publish and Be Damn'd

Nancy Carroll, Charles Edwards and Blake Ritson star in the Classic Serial Publish and Be Damn'd: The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson. A two-parter, episode 1 will be broadcast tomorrow, and episode 2 next Sunday.

Theatre - Evening Standard Theatre Awards

Nancy Carroll, Rory Kinnear and Peter Hall respectively won awards for Best Actress, Best Actor and the Moscow Theatre's Golden Seagull at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards; whatsonstage has a complete list of the winners.

Guests included Andrea Riseborough, Tom Hollander, Laura Wade, Sam West, Rebecca Hall, Martin Freeman, Benedict Cumberbatch and Roger Allam. Pictures: Getty Images and WireImage.

Dan Stevens - Film - Vamps. Samuel West. Radio - Words and Music. Television - Garrow's Law.

[updated 7 August: updated bullet point about Words and Music]

• Dan will play Joey Van Helsing in Vamps directed by Amy Heckerling 1|2
  
  
• Sam and Nancy Carroll are the readers for this week's episode of Words and Music, "The Old Refrain" [link]
• Sam will play Thomas Erskine in the next series of Garrow's Law [link]

Television - The Pillars of the Earth. Film - Jackboots on Whitehall. Film - Made in Dagenham. Ruth Wilson - Theatre - Through a Glass Darkly. BBC Radio.

• Some recently released stills from The Pillars of the Earth [link]
  
  
• Jackboots on Whitehall
• The film (featuring the voices of Ewan McGregor, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson, and Alan Cumming) will have its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (via the Times) [link]
• Trailer [link]
  
  
• The poster, and some stills from Made in Dagenham.
  
  
• Through A Glass Darkly
• Ruth Wilson interview from the Telegraph (via Momentary Bursts of Enthusiasm) [link]
• Screencaps of Ruth from the trailer (click thumbnails for full size):
  
  
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Thea Sharrock (director of After the Dance, starring Nancy Carroll and Benedict Cumberbatch) will be interviewed on Start the Week [link]
• David Tennant stars in Doctor Finlay: Adventures of a Black Bag "The Day Dandini Came to Town"  [link]
• Big Toe Books: Martin Freeman reads The House of Windjammer, and Sharon Horgan reads Alice Next Door. [link]

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).

Television - Small Island. Women in Film and Television Awards. Hayley Atwell - Theatre - A View From the Bridge. Theatre - Arcadia.

• Articles about Small Island telegraph|independent
• Guests at the Women in Film and Television Awards included Romola Garai, Hayley Atwell and Toby Stephens [link]
• Nominees for the whatsonstage.com Awards include Hayley Atwell for Best Supporting Actress in a Play (A View From the Bridge) and the cast of Arcadia for The Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Award for Best Ensemble Performance [link]

Hattie Morahan - Theatre - Three More Sleepless Nights. Rosamund Pike - Film - Surrogates. Theatre - Arcadia. Theatre - Enron.

• Pictures from Three More Sleepless Nights 1|2
• Rosamund makes an appearance in a featurette from joblo about Surrogates [link]
• Mentions of Arcadia and Enron from the Alleyn's Trinity Term newsletter:

  "...Nancy Carroll (Brading's, 1985–92) is appearing in a revival of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at the Duke of York's Theatre... An extended member of the Alleyn's community, Dan Stevens, also appears alongside Nancy in Arcadia. Dan is the son of Ron Stevens, former teacher of Economics and Business Studies, who retired last year.
  
  And a trio from the Alleyn's alumni will be treading the boards together in the world premiere of Enron at Chichester Festival Theatre, followed by a London transfer to the Royal Court from 17th September. Roper's alumni Tom Godwin (1987–94) and Samuel West (1977–84), and parent Tom Goodman-Hill will appear in a dramatisation of one of the most infamous scandals in financial history..."

Theatre - Arcadia

[updated 18 March 2011]




Reviews

Independent
"...Nancy Carroll, emerging as one of our finest comediennes, slicing through the historical coincidences and equivocations with the tartness of a young Lady Bracknell.
Carroll is brilliant. She's matched by Dan Stevens as the inquisitive Septimus..."

whatsonstage
"...the acting of Nancy Carroll, Neil Pearson and Dan Stevens is as good as it gets..."

The Stage
"...Septimus, played with debonair charm by rising stage star Dan Stevens...
The evening's outstanding performance is Nancy Carroll's aristocratic Lady Croom..."

Music OMH
"...The cast is excellent. Dan Stevens's scholarly sardonic Hodge is a charmingly flawed figure, Nancy Carroll plays Lady Croom with a sexy hauteur..."

Telegraph
"...Dan Stevens is superbly articulate and likeable as the tutor, Septimus Hodge, Nancy Carroll deliciously sexy as his employer..."

Pictures

Production:
arcadiatheplay.com
Rex
Broadwayworld
Tristram Kenton/guardian.co.uk
Catherine Ashmore/officiallondontheatre.co.uk, New York Times, IndieLondon

Afterparty (guests included Samuel West, Laura Wade, Jason Isaacs, Peter Hall and Bill Paterson):
Getty [link]
Rex [link]

Press night curtain call:
wooller.com [link]
Getty [link]

Film - An Education. Television - Desperate Romantics. Rebecca Hall. Theatre - Arcadia

• The Australian premiere of An Education will close the Sydney Film Festival [link]
• There will be a preview screening of the first episode of Desperate Romantics at the BFI in July [link]
• Rebecca Hall interview from the Times [link]
• Pictures from Arcadia at the Duke of York's. Press night is 4 June. [link]
• BBC radio drama:
• Simon Russell Beale stars as George Smiley in the le Carré adaptation A Murder of Quality [link]
• Russell Tovey and Hugh Bonneville star in Newfangle [link]
• Alex Jennings and Robert Lindsay star in Electric Ink [link]
  

Rosamund Pike, Kelly Macdonald. Samuel West - Radio - The Better Half. Theatre - Arcadia

• A pretty photoshoot of Kelly by Ellis Parrinder is here. Kelly is also mentioned in an article about British actors in US TV shows.
• Rosamund interview from the Guardian [link]
• Excerpt from an article about the Equity conference:
  

  "Calls for Equity to consider scheduling its representative conference biennially rather than annually, in a bid to save financial and administrative resources, have been quashed... The motion was opposed by an overwhelming majority of representatives, including leading stage actor Sam West who said that such a change would prove to be a 'retrograde step...'"

• The Better Half was chosen as a radio highlight in the Telegraph. It is available on iPlayer until next Monday. [link]
  
• Article about Arcadia by Tom Stoppard. The cast of the original production included Rufus Sewell, Emma Fielding, Bill Nighy, Felicity Kendal and Samuel West; and the cast of the revival, which opens at the Duke of York's 27 May, includes Dan Stevens, Lucy Griffiths, Neil Pearson, Nancy Carroll and Ed Stoppard. [link]
  

Nancy Carroll, Samuel West - Theatre - The Lady's Not For Burning

The Lady's Not For Burning by Christoper Fry
Minerva Studio, Chichester Festival Theatre
22 May - 15 June 2002


Cast:
Jennet Jourdemayne - Nancy Carroll
Thomas Mendip - Alan Cox
Hebble Tyson - Benjamin Whitrow
Margaret Devize - Alison Fiske
Chaplain - Patrick Godfrey
Humphrey Devize - James Thorne
Alizon Eliot - Georgina Sutcliffe
Richard - Ben Silverstone
Edward Tappercoom - Roger Booth
Nicholas Devize - Oliver Senton
Matthew Skipps - Leader Hawkins


Reviews

The Guardian
"...Samuel West's intelligent and beguiling production...West's sharp, unshowy production serves the play well, and throws up sharp, unshowy performances where no one is a star and everyone works together with true generosity..."

Independent
"...Nancy Carroll as the persecuted girl is bewitching indeed..."

The Argus
"...Samuel West has assembled a talented cast..."

The Telegraph
"...The actor Samuel West could hardly have chosen a trickier assignment for his directorial debut, but he and his cast do remarkably well, capturing the play's genuine warmth and humour...Nancy Carroll potently alluring as the "witch" who wants to live..."

Chichester Observer
"...In director Samuel West's expert hands Christopher Fry's verse comedy gets full value as the masterpiece it clearly is..."


Interview

Evening Standard, 21 May 2002


Pictures

Arenapal. arp1034831- arp1034853


Latin phrases and unusual words from the play
(unless otherwise indicated, sources are The New Oxford Dictionary of English, OUP 1998, 2nd edn and Collins Latin Dictionary, Collins 1997, 2000 edn)

Act 1:

• Catarrh. Excessive discharge or build-up of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane.
• Sanctus fumus. Holy smoke.
  

Act 2:

• Peculation. The act of stealing money.
• Stultiloquential. Adj stultiloquy (foolish babbling).
• Nunc dimittus. Now dismissed.
• Cachinnation. Act of laughing loudly.

Act 3:

• Ambrosial. Adj ambrosia, food of the gods.
• Ignis fatuus. Passionate silliness.
  

Nancy Carroll, Dan Stevens - Theatre - Arcadia

[updated 19 March]



Dan and Nancy will be in a West End revival of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard [link]

Rebecca Hall - Theatre - The Bridge Project. Hayley Atwell - Theatre - A View From the Bridge. Dan Stevens - Film - Hilde. Samuel West, Nancy Carroll

• The Bridge Project - The Cherry Orchard, The Winter's Tale
• Interview with Rebecca Hall from Time Out Singapore [link]
• A View from the Bridge
• Will tour to Brighton as part of the Brighton Festival in May [link]
• Hilde
• Video from moviemag
  DSDS Videos: alle Castings, Recalls und Mottoshows bei Clipfish.de
• Michael Croft Theatre
• Blog post about the opening of Michael Croft Theatre at Alleyn's School, Sam West and Nancy Carroll's alma mater [link]
• Nancy Carroll interview [link]
  

Samuel West, Nancy Carroll

[updated 27 February]

Sam and Nancy will attend the opening of Michael Croft Theatre and Performing Arts Centre at Alleyn's, their alma mater. Sam graduated in 1984, and Nancy graduated in 1992. [link]

An article from The Stage about the event is here.

Television - Cambridge Spies

[updated 19 March 2011]


IMDB|Wikipedia

Reviews

The Guardian ("Cambridge Spies", 9 May 2003)
"...Tom Hollander, Samuel West, Toby Stephens and Rupert Penry-Jones excel as the infamous communists..."

Houston Chronicle ("The 'Spies' Among Us", 25 October 2003)
"...the acting is a joy to behold. Tom Hollander (Gosford Park) plays the homosexual Burgess with an openness astonishing for its day. Samuel West (Howards End) imbues Blunt with equanimity and intelligence. Toby Stephens (Die Another Day) and Rupert Penry-Jones (Charlotte Gray) are equally strong as, respectively, Philby and Maclean..."


Articles

The Guardian [link]
UPI [link]
The Age [link]
The Independent [link]
Independent On Sunday "Preview - Cambridge Spies", 4 May 2003
The Northern Echo "Their kind of Guy", 8 May 2003
Televisual "Spies Like Us", 2 April 2003
Yorkshire Post "Sex, Lies and Master Spies", 8 May 2003


Interviews

Rupert Penry-Jones: Belfast News Letter "Catching up with the Cambridge spies saga", 15 May 2003; Daily Post (Liverpool) "Spies and family ties", 10 May 2003
Samuel West: Belfast News Letter "Cambridge spies go West for drama", 30 May 2003; Scottish Daily Record "Dirty Rotten Scoundrel", 3 May 2003; The Western Mail "Let's be Blunt", 29 April 2003; Manchester Evening News; Houston Chronicle "Fourth generation actor stars in BBC America's spy movie", 25 October 2003
Toby Stephens: Augusta Chronicle; sfgate; The Express on Sunday "Bright ideals that ended in the Moscow gloom", 27 April 2003; The Evening Standard "I'm perfect to play toff spy Philby", 1 May 2003; Birmingham Post "Spy Another Day", 5 May 2003
Tom Hollander: Evening Times "The Cam Before the Storm", 9 May 2003


Clip

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Pictures

Milk Publicity [link]

Stills:
Shootastic (hi-res) (registration required) [link]
OBASC [link]

Screencaps (click thumbnails for full size):

Episode 1






Episode 2






Episode 3






Episode 4







Links

BBC 1|2|3
BAFTA/LA [link]

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