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.

UK Film Council letter. Film - Made in Dagenham. Theatre - Twelfth Night. Film - Brighton Rock. Rosamund Pike - Film - Johnny English Reborn.

• Signatories of an open letter to the Telegraph regarding the UK government's recent decision to close the UK Film Council include James McAvoy, Dominic Cooper,
  Ben Whishaw, Bill Nighy, Damian Lewis, Ruth Wilson, Georgia King, and Saoirse Ronan (via the Hollywood Reporter) [link]
  
  
• Made in Dagenham
  
  
  • Sally Hawkins interview from the Evening Standard [link]
  • The film will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Chichester International Film Festival
  
  
• Charles Edwards will play Sir Andrew Aguecheek in the National Theatre's production of Twelfth Night, directed by Peter Hall and starring Rebecca Hall as Viola [link]
  
  
• Brighton Rock
• Stills from Rope of Silicon [link]
• The film will be shown at the Toronto International Film Festival [link]
  
  
• Rosamund Pike has been cast in Johnny English Reborn [link]

Samuel West - Narration - Nocturne. Lucy Prebble - Theatre - Enron. Hayley Atwell - Film - Captain America. Ruth Wilson - Television - Luther. BBC Radio.

• Sam West and Harriet Walter are the readers for Nocturne: The Romantic Life of Frederic Chopin with pianist Lucy Parham at the following performances (via Lucy Parham):
  11 July, Theatre Royal Winchester [link]
  18 July, Wigmore Hall [link]
  21 July, Petworth Festival [link]
  29 July, Harrogate Festival [link]
  
  
• Enron (Broadway)
• Lucy Prebble interview [link]
• Article from Playbill about the Broadway opening night [link]
• Broadway opening night video from broadway.com [link]
  
  
• Captain America: The First Avenger begins filming 28 June. The film stars Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell and Sebastian Stan. (via MTV) [link]
  
  
• Luther
• Scans of an article from the Radio Times about the show from Momentary Bursts of Enthusiasm [link]
• Screencaps of Ruth Wilson from the trailer:
  
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Gemma Arterton will be interviewed on Woman's Hour [link]
• Peter Hall will be interviewed on Start the Week [link]
• Derek Riddell, Amelia Bullmore and Tom Goodman-Hill star in the Drama on 3 And So Say All of Us... (via Tom's Twitter, @tomgoodmanh) [link]
• Julian Rhind-Tutt and Sarah Alexander are the readers for Words and Music "May Day" [link]
• The cast of Alexander includes Geraldine James, Michael Maloney, Alex Jennings and Julian Rhind-Tutt {repeat} [link]

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)

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]

Radio - Goldfinger. Instyle - The Brit Pack, Best of British party. South Bank Show Awards.

• As well as the previously announced Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike and Ian McKellen, the cast of Goldfinger includes Tom Hollander, Lisa Dillon and Tim Pigott-Smith. It will be broadcast 3 April. (via Commander Bond) [link]
• Andrea Riseborough and Ruth Wilson are in the portfolio "The Brit Pack" from the March 2010 issue of Instyle (UK). A behind the scenes video from the shoot is here. Instyle hosted a Best of British party celebrating the BAFTAs. Guests included Bonnie Wright, Claire Foy, Jamie Campbell Bower, Olivia Grant and Rosamund Pike.
• Ruth Wilson was at the Waiting for Godot press night after party 1|2|3|4
• Guests at the South Bank Show Awards include Damian Lewis, Rebecca Hall, Ruth Wilson, David Morrissey and Peter Hall 1|2

Theatre - National Theatre 2010. Theatre - Enron. Dan Stevens - Film - Hilde.

• The National Theatre 2010 season includes (via The Telegraph):
• Toby Stephens stars in Danton's Death
• Rory Kinnear and Clare Higgins star in Hamlet, opening in September. A UK and international tour will follow in early 2011.
• Simon Russell Beale and Mark Addy star in London Assurance
• Rebecca Hall stars in Twelfth Night directed by Peter Hall
• Enron
• An interview with Lucy Prebble from the Evening Standard is here; and she will be in an upcoming issue of Vogue.
• Lyn Gardner's theatre tips from the Guardian [link]
• Hilde will be screened at the Glasgow Film Festival (via Eye for Film) [link]

Theatre - The Stage 100

People who are in the Stage 100 include Rupert Goold, John Barrowman, Jeremy Herrin, Peter Hall, Rebecca Hall, Rory Kinnear, Simon Russell Beale, Samuel West and Lucy Prebble. [link]

Theatre - Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Theatre - Enron. Theatre - A Streetcar Named Desire.

[updated 27 November]

Winners at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards include Rupert Goold (Sydney Edwards award for best director - Enron, Royal Court), Rachel Weisz (Natasha Richardson award for best actress - A Streetcar Named Desire, Donmar Warehouse) and Alia Bano (Charles Wintour award for most promising playwright - Shades, Royal Court).

Guests at the event include Hayley Atwell, Benedict Cumberbatch, Amanda Drew, Rupert Goold, Peter Hall, Tom Hollander, Rory Kinnear, Lucy Prebble, Simon Russell Beale, Laura Wade, Sam West, Ruth Wilson and Fenella Woolgar.

Articles
whatsonstage.com 1|2
Evening Standard [link]
The Stage [link]
The Guardian [link]
The Independent [link]

Pictures
wooller.com [link]
Evening Standard [link]
Rex Features [link]
Wireimage [link]
Getty [link]

Videos
Evening Standard [link]
elizabethtoni 1|2

Charles Edwards - Theatre - A Midsummer Night's Dream

Charles will play Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Peter Hall at the Rose Theatre Kingston 9 February - 20 March 2010.

Links
whatsonstage.com [link]
Playbill [link]
Rose Theatre Kingston [link]

Theatre - 24 Hour Plays. Sunday Times London theatre feature. BBC Radio.

• Anna Maxwell Martin and Ruth Wilson will take part in the 24-Hour Plays Celebrity Gala at the Old Vic, 1 November [link]
• There will be a Sunday Times London theatre feature about people such as Samuel West, Samantha Bond, Harry Treadaway, Luke Treadaway, Ben Whishaw, Peter Hall, Ian McKellen, Juliet Stevenson and Derek Jacobi. Sam posted a picture from the photoshoot, which took place at the Royal Court. [link]
• BBC Radio:
• Romola Garai will be on Loose Ends promoting Emma [link]
• Tom Hollander and Sheila Hancock will be the readers on Words and Music "Illusions of Power" [link]
• Peter Firth will narrate the Book of the Week The Defence of the Realm [link]
• Stephen Mangan and Peter Serafinowicz will narrate the Book at Bedtime And Another Thing... [link]
• Stephen Campbell Moore and Diana Quick star in the Afternoon Play A Dose of Fame [link]
• Judi Dench and Michael Sheen star in The Importance of Being Earnest [link]
• Jason Isaacs will narrate The Prince and the Pauper for Big Toe Books [link]

Harold Pinter celebration at Lord's

[updated 3 October]


Artist: Joe Hill. Source: lordstaverners.org

A Harold Pinter celebration took place at Lord's Cricket Ground yesterday - a celebrity cricket match at Lord's Nursery Ground was followed by a tribute in the Long Room. A portrait of Pinter by Joe Hill was auctioned as well. Proceeds from the celebration will go towards purchasing a minibus for the cricket-loving kids in Hackney.
People who attended include Lady Antonia Fraser, Janie Dee, Peter Hall, Bill Nighy, Jeremy Irons, Jason Isaacs, Roger Lloyd Pack, Samuel West, Timothy West, Penelope Wilton, Harry Burton, Fintan McKeown, Dickie Wyse, Roger Davidson, Ian MaKinnon, Ben Nealon, Robert Powell, Paul Smith, Michael Billington, Somit Dutta, Mike Brearley, Mike Atherton, Mike Gatting, Jeremy Coney, Ian Smith and Chris Tarrant.

Bill Nighy was interviewed on Today last Saturday and he mentioned there would be "songs from Janie Dee" at the tribute. His interview is on this page (scroll down to 0851).
An excerpt from the Guardian:

"...Theatrical readings in the evening will see [Jeremy] Irons take to the stage with Tim West to perform an excerpt from No Man's Land, and [Mike] Brearley reading from The Caretaker..."

A tweet from Sam West about the game:

At Lords playing for Taverners vs Gaieties for Pinter celebration. Our opening pair Atherton and Gatting. I'm in at number eight. Oo-er.

I tweeted Sam about the celebration (and thanks to him for replying!):


A recap of the celebration is here at Cricket Family.


Links

The Lord's Taverners 1|2
The Independent [link]
Guardian [link]
Telegraph [link]
The Arts Desk [link]
whatsonstage.com [link]

Theatre - The Browning Version

[updated 17 March 2011]

Reviews

The Telegraph
"...With excellent supporting performances from Laurenson as the smarmy headmaster, Charles Edwards as the science teacher, and James Musgrave as the schoolboy, this strikes me as a near perfect production of a short but emotionally overwhelming masterpiece."

The Guardian
"...Candida Gubbins rightly plays Crocker-Harris's wife as a snob, equally doomed to disappointment, and Charles Edwards lends her sometime lover a quixotic compassion..."

This is Wiltshire
"...Charles Edwards is engaging as Frank Hunter..."

Picture

Nobby Clark/telegraph.co.uk

Theatre - The Apple Cart

[updated 17 March 2011]

Reviews

Daily Mail
"...In addition to the gripping topicality of it all, Sir Peter Hall's production draws first-class performances not only from Messrs Edwards and Laurenson (whose PM has a glinting desperation) but also, for instance, from Richard Dixon as a dark, faintly vindictive foreign secretary..."

The Guardian
"...Peter Hall's rare and excellent revival...Charles Edwards invests King Magnus with just the right mix of comic buoyancy and specific gravity..."

The Stage
"...Peter Hall has made a habit of including a Shaw offering in his company’s summer season at Bath, but never with such percipience as this articulate production that must surely be bound for the West End...Charles Edwards mixes charm and cunning in equal quantity as a charismatic King Magnus..."

This is Dorset
"...Peter Hall's production is beautifully staged, subverting expectations and hitting home the timelessly topical aspects of this sometimes very funny play...Charles Edwards is an irresistible king, a man who has dispensed with the effete reliance on protocol, and thus manages his ministers of state with charm and precision..."

This is Wiltshire
"...Best of all is Charles Edwards as King Magnus, charismatic, charming, clever, and more than a match in deviousness for his whole cabinet...directed by Peter Hall it has a directness and a lightness of touch..."

This is Bath
"...Highly amusing and intelligent, it's rather boring to relate that this is another piece of Peter Hall perfection, but it simply is."

Crackerjack
"...you couldn't wish for a more polished, intelligent production or a better cast..."

Financial Times
"...Charles Edwards is at once amiable and wily (he brought a similar combination to the West End’s four-handed adaptation of The 39 Steps) as King Magnus...Perhaps the highlight of the play is the verbal fencing between Edwards and Janie Dee as his mistress, a typical Shavian intellectual duel but invested by the actors with playfulness and affection..."

Telegraph
"...Hall's sharp and entertaining production...Charles Edwards brings dash, style, cunning and a hint of melancholy to the King...Highly recommended."

New York Times
"...Nimbly directed by Mr. Hall, this Apple Cart is a deft piece of prognostication, with its portraits of craven special-interest-ruled politicians and of England as a super money laundry for other nations..."

Pictures

Geraint Lewis/independent.co.uk
unknown/timesonline.co.uk, thisiswiltshire.co.uk
Tristram Kenton/dailymail.co.uk
Rex Features
Robbie Jack/Corbis

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]

Charles Edwards. Theatre - The Browning Version. Theatre - The Apple Cart

[updated 17 March 2011]

Charles will be in the Peter Hall Company's productions of The Browning Version (25 June - 1 August) and The Apple Cart (1 July - 1 August) at the Theatre Royal Bath. The Browning Version will also tour to Malvern Theatres (31 August - 5 September) and Kingston Theatre (7-12 September).

Links

The Browning Version

• Theatre Royal Bath [link]
  
• whatsonstage listings [link]

The Apple Cart

• Theatre Royal Bath [link]
• whatsonstage listings [link]

Entertainment news

• Terry Gilliam is going to have another go at bringing Don Quixote to the big screen [link]
• Another cast and director change for the film adaptation of Wuthering Heights - Ed Westwick and Gemma Arterton will star as Heathcliff and Cathy, and Peter Webber will direct [link]
• Martin Scorsese will direct a Frank Sinatra biopic [link]
• David Tennant will be the new host of Masterpiece Contemporary [link]
• Info about the three upcoming Torchwood radio plays [link]
• Tilda Swinton, January Jones, Matt Smith, Samantha Morton and Peter Hall interviews tilda|january|matt|samantha|peter
• Mary and Max won the AniMovie section at the 16th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film [link]
• Articles about Martin Scorsese and The Red Shoes 1|2
  
• Matthew Goode will star in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's film Cemetery Junction [link]
• Monica Bleibtreu (Hilde, 4 Minutes) has died of cancer [link]
  

Entertainment news

• Romola Garai, Jonny Lee Miller and Michael Gambon will star in the BBC's miniseries adaptation of Emma (via bbccostumedrama) [link]
• Peter Hall, Hugh Laurie and Jason Isaacs interviews peter|hugh|jason
• Martin Scorsese will receive the MPAA's Jack Valenti Humanitarian Award [link]
• Doctor Who "Planet of the Dead"
  
• James Strong interview [link]
  
• David Tennant and Russell T Davies interview [link]
• Fortissimo Films co-founder and chairman Wouter Barendrecht died Sunday in Bangkok of heart failure 1|2|3
• Posts about In the Loop from brit_actors and OBASC 1|2
• Keeley Hawes interivew (via darcylicious) [link]
  
• Cherrybomb trailer [link]
• Conversation between John and Sarah Parish [link]
• Zooey Deschanel on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson [link]
• A James Bond museum has opened in Keswick [link]
• Mike Newell will direct an adaptation of The Box of Delights [link]
• Bill Nighy interviews (via billnighy.info) 1|2|3
  

Theatre - V&A party

[updated 10 May]

Peter Hall, Rebecca Hall and Sam West attended the opening of the V&A's performance galleries.

From the Independent:

"...The great theatre director Peter Hall was the guest of honour, giving the opening address and proudly twinkling around the room with his daughters Rebecca (wearing a quirky black fedora Woody Allen would surely have approved of) and Emma on his arms...Meanwhile, Sam West, sporting an extraordinary Victorian ensemble of frock coat, cravat and toothbrush moustache, had the party buzzing about which new role might have necessitated such theatrical facial hair [Lord Ranelagh in Desperate Romantics, perhaps?]."

Pictures from the event are here.

Rebecca Hall

From the Evening Standard:

"What did Sir Peter Hall put in his children's tea? I want some of it. Rebecca Hall is currently the toast of the British film industry after her assured performance in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Meanwhile, her half-brother, Ed Hall, is consolidating his position as one of our most successful theatre directors. Last year he directed Greta Scacchi in the finest Deep Blue Sea I have seen on stage and last Saturday I went to his all-male production of The Merchant of Venice at the Rose Theatre in Kingston. It is not my favourite Shakespeare play but the imaginative set and inspired casting made me realise that this boy will run and run."