Whatsonstage.com awards nominations and the British Independent Film Awards

Nominees for the Whatsonstage.com awards include Charles Edwards (Best Supporting Actor in a Play); Ruth Wilson and Kristin Scott Thomas (Best Actress in a Play); and Benedict Cumberbatch and David Tennant (Best Actor in a Play). The full list of nominations is here, and voting closes 31 January.

Guests at the British Independent Film Awards included Benedict Cumberbatch, Dominic Cooper, Gemma Arterton, Hayley Atwell, Rebecca Hall, Ruth Wilson and Tom Hollander (Getty: arrivals, after party, inside arrivals).

Ruth Wilson, Andrea Riseborough, Parade's End, BBC Radio

Series 2 of Luther begins Tuesday 14 June (BBC press office). A bit of publicity - Stylist has an interview with Ruth. And she appears briefly in this trailer for the show (click the thumbnail for full size):

Ruth took part in the Josephine Hart poetry week at the Donmar Warehouse this week. She read "Train" by Helen Mackay (@lawyercatrin, Ought to be Clowns).

Owen Sheers has written about Andrea's research for Resistance, in which she plays Sarah (Telegraph).
Andrea will play Princess Betsy in the film adaptation of Anna Karenina directed by Joe Wright. Tom Stoppard wrote the script (Daily Mail).

Another Stoppard script - Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall will star in a BBC/HBO adaptation of Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford (Deadline Hollywood).

BBC Radio

• Rupert Penry-Jones, Ruth Wilson, Rory Kinnear and Tom Goodman-Hill star in the Drama on 3 Flare Path
• Sam Troughton and Hattie Morahan star in the Classic Serial Plantagenet "Edward II - The Greatest Traitor". The BBC Radio 4 blog has a post about the series.
• Jason Isaacs stars as Lieutenant Clancy in the Friday Play Bullitt, which is available on iPlayer for six more days
• Juliet Stevenson stars in the Afternoon Play The Apple Tree
• Hugh Bonneville and Helena Bonham Carter are the readers for Words and Music "Turning Points"

Noir and foxes

[updated 19 March 2011]



Sources: my screencaps from Digital News Agency videos

Ruth Wilson and Hayley Atwell attended the Emporio Armani "Noir" show and Black Party at Milan Fashion Week (via Ruth Wilson - the placeholder blog). Getty and WireImage have pictures of Ruth and Hayley arriving for the show; and Moda è Donna has a picture from the party. Ruth and Hayley have also been featured in an article from WWD:

"Hayley Atwell said she hoped the release of summer blockbuster “Captain America,” in which she plays the superhero’s girlfriend, would bring more opportunities in film and fashion. “I would love to do a campaign,” she enthused. “Designing would be amazing as well.” She declined to comment on rumors she is joining Baz Luhrmann’s planned 3D remake of “The Great Gatsby,” featuring Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role. “That would be incredible. I know that the script is being worked on at the moment so it’s in the very early stages,” Atwell said.
Ruth Wilson, meanwhile, said she’s set to play the title role of “Anna Christie” opposite Jude law at London’s Donmar Theater, with rehearsals starting in June."

Rosamund Pike, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall and Gemma Arterton attended the Mulberry woodland-inspired show and party at London Fashion Week. Pictures: Cosmopolitan, Mulberry blog 1|2. Videos: Vogue, Mulberry/Facebook, Digital News Agency.

English Ballet Nutcracker gala, Barney's Version, BBC Radio

Hayley Atwell attended the English Ballet Nutcracker gala performance. Pictures from WireImage, Rex Features and Getty (arrivals, pre party).

Rosamund Pike interview from the Globe and Mail about Barney's Version.

BBC Radio

• Rebecca Hall and John Paul Connolly are the readers for Words and Music "Full of Noises" {repeat}
• Stephen Sondheim reads his book Finishing the Hat for the Book of the Week
• Hattie Morahan and David Schofield star in series 2 of the Woman's Hour Drama The Art of Deception
• Martin Jarvis performs Jeeves in Manhattan "The Artistic Career of Corky"
• Richard E Grant and Toby Jones respectively read the Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare "All Hallows" and "Seaton's Aunt"

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.

Samuel West. Narration - Peer Gynt. Time to Talk. London's 1000 most influential people. Theatre - Zone of Silence. Narration - Warsaw Ghetto. Narration - Lines of Flight. Television - Garrow's Law. Arts funding in Somerset.

(sources: Southampton Philharmonic, Young Vic, channel4.com, Sal Brown - used with permission, artscampaign.org.uk)

Two reminders: narration of Peer Gynt with the Southampton Philharmonic at the Southampton Guildhall on this Saturday, 27 November (previously blogged here); and Time to Talk at the Rose Kingston Theatre on 7 December (previously blogged here).

Sam has been included (among others such as Benedict Cumberbatch, Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Rebecca Hall, Lucy Prebble, Tom Stoppard, Simon Russell Beale and Ruth Wilson) in the theatre section of the Evening Standard's London's 1000 most influential people.

Ian McKellen, Jude Law and Sam will make guest appearances in Belarus: Zone of Silence presented by Index on Censorship and the Young Vic, at the Young Vic on 5 December (via whatsonstage).

He narrated the More4 documentary Warsaw Ghetto: The Unfinished Film, which was broadcast on 30 October (via his Twitter, @exitthelemming). In other narration news, Lines of Flight won the Jury Prize at the Torello Mountain Film Festival (via the film's Twitter, @LinesOfFlight). Lines of Flight will next be screened at the Fernie Mountain Film Festival in February 2011 (previously blogged here).

Sam plays Thomas Erskine in series 2 episode 4 of Garrow's Law, which will be broadcast on BBC1, 5 December.

On 10 November, Sam attended a council meeting in Taunton, as a representative of the National Campaign for the Arts to protest cuts to arts funding in Somerset. Press coverage: the Guardian and This is Somerset.

Theatre - The Children's Monologues. GQ Men of the Year Awards. Toronto International Film Festival. BBC Radio.

• On Sunday 14 November at the Old Vic, Gemma Arterton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Romola Garai and Hattie Morahan will perform in The Children's Monologues directed by Danny Boyle. The event is a fundraiser - proceeds will go to the Pete Patsa Arts Centre. (via sherlockbbc) [link]
  
  
• Guests at the GQ Men of the Year Awards (7 September) included Hayley Atwell (presented the award for the Smirnoff Black Most Stylish to Aaron Johnson), Gemma Arterton (winner, Woman), Martin Scorsese, Emily Mortimer and Matt Smith (winner, TV personality).
• Pictures from Rex Features 1|2|3
• Articles:
  Vogue [link]
  GQ [link]
• Videos by elizabethtoni 1|2
  
  
• Portraits of Rebecca Hall, Clive Owen, Sally Hawkins and Andrew Garfield by Carlo Allegri at the Toronto International Film Festival [link]
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Georgia King and Lee Williams star in the Classic Serial The Ladies' Delight [link] 
• Hattie Morahan reads the Book at Bedtime Sister [link]
• Stephen Mangan and Adjoa Andoh are the readers for Words and Music "In Search of the Sublime" [link]

Toronto International Film Festival. BBC Radio.

• Guests attending the Toronto International Film Festival include Andrea Riseborough, Carey Mulligan, Clive Owen, Colin Firth, Dominic Cooper, Gemma Arterton, Kristin Scott Thomas, Michael Sheen, Rebecca Hall, Rosamund Pike, Sally Hawkins; Mark Romanek, Mike Leigh, Nigel Cole, Stephen Frears, and Tom Hooper [link]
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Simon Woods, Kevin Eldon and Chris Larkin star in the Saturday Play Boscobel [link]
• Claire Skinner will be interviewed on Woman's Hour [link]
• Evanna Lynch narrates the Afternoon Reading Foster [link]

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]

Hayley Atwell, Gemma Arterton. Film - Never Let Me Go. BBC Radio.

• Hayley Atwell and Gemma Arterton portraits by Matt Jones.
  
  
• Unspoilery screencaps of Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Sally Hawkins, Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough from the Never Let Me Go trailer (click the thumbnails for full size):
  
  
  
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Tom Hollander will be a guest on Start the Week [link]
• On the Hour, produced by Armando Iannucci, stars Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, and Patrick Marber [link]
• Howard Brenton will be interviewed on Front Row and Night Waves
• Diana Quick, Simon McBurney, Olivia Williams, Clemency Burton-Hill, and Mat Fraser will present episodes of The Essay Half Shame, Half Glory - Postcards from the Acting Profession [link]
• Rebecca Hall was interviewed on The Film Programme [link]

Rebecca Hall, Ruth Wilson, Laura Wade. British Academy Television Awards. BBC Radio.

• Interviews with Rebecca Hall (via Momentary Bursts of Enthusiasm) and Ruth Wilson from the Guardian rebecca|ruth
  
  
• Laura Wade interview from the Sheffield Telegraph about Alice [link]
  
  
• British Academy Television Awards
• Selected winners: Julie Walters (leading actress, Mo), Matthew Macfadyen (leading actor, Criminal Justice), and Rebecca Hall (supporting actress, Red Riding 1974). The Thick of It received three awards - female performance in a comedy role (Rebecca Front), male performance in a comedy role (Peter Capaldi), and situation comedy.
• Pictures 1|2|3|4|5|6
• Article from Instyle [link]
• Videos from BAFTA, including a red carpet interview with Ruth Wilson, and an interview with the cast and crew of The Thick of It [link]
• Press release from MAC. Their artists did make up for Romola Garai, Ashley Jensen, and Ruth Wilson. [link]
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Roger Allam and Alex Jennings star in The Idiot (via the AJ Diaries) [link]
• Stephen Mangan reads The Dream Travellers for Big Toe Books [link]
• Juliet Stevenson was interviewed on Loose Ends [link]
  

BAFTA TV award nominations

BAFTA TV award nominations include (via the British Comedy Guide):
A Short Stay in Switzerland. Actress (Julie Walters), Single drama.
Small Island. Supporting Actor (Benedict Cumberbatch), Drama serial.
Gracie! Supporting Actor (Tom Hollander).
Red Riding: 1974. Supporting Actress (Rebecca Hall).
QI. Entertainment performance (Stephen Fry).
The Thick of It. Female performance in a comedy role (Rebecca Front), Male performance in a comedy role (Peter Capaldi), Situation comedy.

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]

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]
  

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 - Enron

[updated 31 January]



Reviews

Telegraph
"...There is superb clarity in Prebble's story-telling as well as high drama, and terrific bravura about Rupert Goold's often dazzling production that brings the mysterious world of high finance to vivid, comprehensible life...
The production is is also blessed with some terrific performances. Samuel West grippingly charts the transformation of Enron's chief executive Jeffrey Skilling from gauche nerd to ruthless financial master of the universe..."

The Times
"...It's now as much a phenomenon as a play... Good for Lucy Prebble. Good for her Enron.
...a potentially dry subject is actually packed with juice is also due to the actors: Tim Pigott-Smith's Kenneth Lay, Enron's founder and a man whose folksy bonhomie conceals ruthlessness; Tom Goodman-Hill as the obsequious nerd who devises and then disowns the fiscal trickery; and, above all, Samuel West as the CEO..."

Bloomberg
"...Lucy Prebble's razor-sharp play...
Samuel West is superb as the aggressive and devious character depicting Enron Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling, and his physical and mental disintegration now strikes an even deeper note of horror..."

Londonist
"...Samuel West is wonderful as Skilling, managing to bring a touch of humanity to a brainy, unrepentantly greedy bastard. Tim Pigott-Smith is utterly convincing as Enron chairman Ken Lay, creepily concealing his greed behind touchy-feely company jargon and religion. And Amanda Drew is great as what seems to be the one woman in the room, losing out to the macho of markets..."

whatsonstage.com
"...The great Samuel West leads the same cast as that which first appeared at the Chichester Minerva Theatre in July last year, then at the Royal Court in the autumn, and the company crackle with energy and wit now just as they did in each of the previous incarnations of the show..."

Guardian
"...company president Jeffrey Skilling (played by Sam West, who is remarkable in what is a remarkable cast)... The audience doesn't have to do the maths because Prebble has done it for us, bringing clarity to a complex story, and cleverly blurring the line between fact and fiction to considerable dramatic effect..."
[another review] "...Enron has arrived in the West End. Lucy Prebble's play is one of the most grown-up political dramas of the last decade. The raptor puppets, the fluorescent dazzle, the great Mammon danse macabre of Rupert Goold's production put flesh on the ideas, make the virtual look real, give life to the illusions of finance. Last year saw a string of unmissable plays. This is one of them."

Music OMH
"...West's superb performance gives the production its pulse. In his hands Skilling is an enigmatic and intriguing figure, highly intelligent, ruthless and manipulative when needs be, and utterly convinced of his own brilliance, but also undoubtedly passionate about what he does... Physically, West transforms himself repeatedly as the play progresses. From a portly outsider with unfortunate hair at the start he morphs into the epitome of the slick executive and then, as the full reality of the situation comes to light, he subtly conveys Skilling’s unravelling... Goodman-Hill is also impressive as the smart but socially awkward and rather repellent Fastow..."

The Sunday Times
"...Sam West is superb in the role [Jeffrey Skilling]. Initially, he is a boffin with a weird, slicked-down hairstyle, thick specs and trousers too short... He possesses a quite breathtaking arrogance. Gradually, his image gets slicker, his suits sharper; he even has his eyes lasered...
Prebble’s play is a magnificently ambitious and original piece"

The Financial Times
"...The acting was compelling and believable, especially from Sam West, who as Jeff Skilling managed to make a seamless transition from maths nerd to master of the universe..."

Articles

Sky News - Lucy Prebble and Samuel West are interviewed [link]
Telegraph - Rupert Goold interview [link]
ITN - Tom Goodman-Hill is interviewed [link]
Critics' Circle Theatre Awards - Rupert Goold won best director [link]
Official London Theatre Guide [link]
CNBC - producer Matthew Byam Shaw interview (via Enron- West End Run) [link]
The Times - Lucy Prebble interview [link]

Pictures

Press night:
wooller.com - after party (guests included Imelda Staunton, Lindsay Duncan, John Simm, Guy Henry, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dominic West, Rebecca Hall, Laura Wade, Maxine Peake and Andrew Scott) and curtain call [link]
Getty - after party [link]

Production:
Photo by Elliott Franks [link]
Photos by Helen Maybanks 1|2
Corbis (photo: Robbie Jack) [link]

Video

Press night - video by elizabethtoni (via FilmographySam) [link]

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]

Entertainment news

• Billie Piper, Simon Russell Beale and Colin Firth & Tom Ford interviews billie|simon|colin & tom
  
• Golden Globes
• Winners [link]
• Martin Scorsese's acceptance speech [link]
  
• Carey Mulligan received the best actress award at the National Board of Review gala (via Just Jared); she has been included in Life magazine's Oscar hopefuls portraits; and she has been nominated for the Orange Rising Star Bafta Award.
• The Pride, starring Hugh Dancy, Ben Whishaw, Andrea Riseborough and Adam James is featured in Broadway Beat [link]
• Article about Mahler by Armando Iannucci (via AIannucci) [link]
  
• Red Riding will have a limited release in New York [link]
• Article about The King's Speech [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 - 24 Hour Plays. Television - The Thick of It. Theatre - Evening Standard Theatre Awards longlist.

• 24 Hour Plays
• Article and video from the Independent [link]
• 2 part recap from ThisStage 1|2
• Pictures from the after party. As well as performers such as Jason Isaacs, Romola Garai, Stephen Mangan, Ruth Wilson, Hattie Morahan and Anna Maxwell Martin, guests included Damian Lewis, Imogen Lloyd Webber, Blake Ritson and Jessica deRothschild. [link]
  
• The Thick of It
  
• Review of series 3 episode 2 from the Guardian [link]
• Rebecca Front was on Broadcasting House [link]
• In addition to Enron, productions such as The Winter's Tale (Best Actor - Simon Russell Beale; The Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress - Rebecca Hall; Best Director - Sam Mendes) and Hamlet (Best Actor - David Tennant) are also on the Evening Standard Theatre Awards longlist [link]