House season 1 episode 13 (of 22)
Our Mutual Friend episode 6 (of 6)
Life on Mars series 2 episodes 1 and 2 (of 8)
The Robinsons
Foyle's War series 5
Hotel Babylon series 2 episodes 1 and 2 (of 8)
Multiple viewings
Entourage series 3 episode 12 (of 12) (2)
Thursday, 8 March 2007
Saturday, 17 February 2007
Charles Edwards - Theatre - The 39 Steps (Criterion) - Reviews (2007)
MEDIA
Reviews Gate
"Barlow's stage version sees the excellent Charles Edwards as Richard Hannay, the wrongly-accused English gentleman on the run."
The Times
"Maria Aitken’s production keeps us enjoying the story as well as the tricks, the humour and the send-up of tight-vowelled English derring-do. You laugh — but you also want to know what happens when Mr Memory takes the Palladium stage at the play’s denouement."
Theatre News Online
"it's fast paced, funny and literally off the wall."
Time Out
"Charles Edwards is Richard Hannay, a gentleman with irony in his soul, able to avert disaster with the merest twitch of a courteous eyebrow – until a mysterious female foreigner is stabbed in his apartment."
British Theatre Guide
"Charles Edwards, a dapper, pencil- moustached Hannay holds the whole thing together with a fine sense of style."
Reviews Gate
"Barlow's stage version sees the excellent Charles Edwards as Richard Hannay, the wrongly-accused English gentleman on the run."
The Times
"Maria Aitken’s production keeps us enjoying the story as well as the tricks, the humour and the send-up of tight-vowelled English derring-do. You laugh — but you also want to know what happens when Mr Memory takes the Palladium stage at the play’s denouement."
Theatre News Online
"it's fast paced, funny and literally off the wall."
Time Out
"Charles Edwards is Richard Hannay, a gentleman with irony in his soul, able to avert disaster with the merest twitch of a courteous eyebrow – until a mysterious female foreigner is stabbed in his apartment."
British Theatre Guide
"Charles Edwards, a dapper, pencil- moustached Hannay holds the whole thing together with a fine sense of style."
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Monday, 29 January 2007
TV randomness - January
House season 1 episodes 6-12 (of 22)
Torchwood series 1 episodes 12 and 13 (of 13)
Vicar of Dibley Christmas special
Green Wing final episode
Foyle's War series 3
Our Mutual Friend episodes 1-5 (of 6)
Multiple viewings
Entourage season 3 episodes 5-9 (of 12)
Life on Mars series 1 episodes 1-5 (of 8)
Torchwood series 1 episodes 12 and 13 (of 13)
Vicar of Dibley Christmas special
Green Wing final episode
Foyle's War series 3
Our Mutual Friend episodes 1-5 (of 6)
Multiple viewings
Entourage season 3 episodes 5-9 (of 12)
Life on Mars series 1 episodes 1-5 (of 8)
Charles Edwards - Theatre - The 39 Steps (Criterion) - Press (2007)
* updated 17 February
Excerpt from an article at theatermania.com:
"Another adaptation that works like gangbusters is Patrick Barlow's raucous treatment of The 39 Steps at the Criterion, which is based on Alfred Hitchcock's extremely loose 1935 film version of the John Buchan novel. Barlow sticks closely to the heart-palpitating Hitchcock plot, but recasts it as a camp comedy. Charles Edwards as Richard Hannay -- who's trying to track down a spy cove -- repeatedly gives the audience his tilted-chin profile. The appropriately named Rachel Pickup stylishly plays the three women Hannay picks up. All the other parts are enacted by Rupert Degas and Simon Gregor, two masters of every imaginable British dialect. The fast-and-furious farrago is directed by Maria Aitken, who did this same sort of effervescent entertainment some years back with Charles Ludlum's Mystery of Irma Vep."
The 39 Steps has been extended by 5 months to September 2007:
http://www.londontheatre.co.uk/londontheatre/news/jan07/39steps19jan07.htm
Article about Rachel Pickup taking over Catherine McCormack:
http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/display?contentId=92450
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Excerpt from an article at theatermania.com:
"Another adaptation that works like gangbusters is Patrick Barlow's raucous treatment of The 39 Steps at the Criterion, which is based on Alfred Hitchcock's extremely loose 1935 film version of the John Buchan novel. Barlow sticks closely to the heart-palpitating Hitchcock plot, but recasts it as a camp comedy. Charles Edwards as Richard Hannay -- who's trying to track down a spy cove -- repeatedly gives the audience his tilted-chin profile. The appropriately named Rachel Pickup stylishly plays the three women Hannay picks up. All the other parts are enacted by Rupert Degas and Simon Gregor, two masters of every imaginable British dialect. The fast-and-furious farrago is directed by Maria Aitken, who did this same sort of effervescent entertainment some years back with Charles Ludlum's Mystery of Irma Vep."
The 39 Steps has been extended by 5 months to September 2007:
http://www.londontheatre.co.uk/londontheatre/news/jan07/39steps19jan07.htm
Article about Rachel Pickup taking over Catherine McCormack:
http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/display?contentId=92450
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Wednesday, 3 January 2007
TV randomness - December
Torchwood series 1 episodes 7-11 (of 13)
House season 1 episodes 1-5 (of 22)
The State Within episodes 3-6 (of 6)
Random Quest
The Rotter's Club
The Trench
Multiple viewings
Entourage series 3 episodes 2-4 (of 12) (2)
Doctor Who series 1/27 episodes 10-13 (of 13) (2)
House season 1 episodes 1-5 (of 22)
The State Within episodes 3-6 (of 6)
Random Quest
The Rotter's Club
The Trench
Multiple viewings
Entourage series 3 episodes 2-4 (of 12) (2)
Doctor Who series 1/27 episodes 10-13 (of 13) (2)
Monday, 4 December 2006
TV randomness - November
Torchwood episodes 4-6 (of 13)
The State Within episodes 1 and 2 (of 6)
The Camomile Lawn
Afterlife series 2 episodes 5-8 (of 8)
Spooks series 5 episodes 9 and 10 (of 10)
Bodies series 1
The Line of Beauty
Have I Got News for You series 32 episode 5
Multiple viewings
Entourage series 3 episode 1 (of 12)
Doctor Who series 1 (27) episode 9 (of 13)
The State Within episodes 1 and 2 (of 6)
The Camomile Lawn
Afterlife series 2 episodes 5-8 (of 8)
Spooks series 5 episodes 9 and 10 (of 10)
Bodies series 1
The Line of Beauty
Have I Got News for You series 32 episode 5
Multiple viewings
Entourage series 3 episode 1 (of 12)
Doctor Who series 1 (27) episode 9 (of 13)
Saturday, 25 November 2006
Charles Edwards - Film - The All Together (2007)
Charles plays Marcus Craigie-Halkett.
UK release February 2007.
Plot summary
http://www.martinfreeman.com/alltogether.php
Festivals
Berlin, February 2006
Cannes, May 2006
Companies
Production
Establishment Films P/L http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilms/catalogue/browse/?id=519E08B704e892ACCBjUqL602D4D
Head Gear Films http://www.headgearfilms.com/artman/publish/cat_index_10.shtml
Priority Pictures http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117950989.html?categoryid=1246&cs=1
Post
Evolutions http://www.ukpost.org.uk/news/articles.htm?aId=575
Sales agent
Arclight http://www.arclightfilms.com/newsletters/berlin_efm/arclight_at_berlin.htm
Distributor
Lion's Gate: UK
Other links
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450238/
Gavin Claxton (director) http://www.myspace.com/gavinclaxton
UK release February 2007.
Plot summary
http://www.martinfreeman.com/alltogether.php
Festivals
Berlin, February 2006
Cannes, May 2006
Companies
Production
Establishment Films P/L http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilms/catalogue/browse/?id=519E08B704e892ACCBjUqL602D4D
Head Gear Films http://www.headgearfilms.com/artman/publish/cat_index_10.shtml
Priority Pictures http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117950989.html?categoryid=1246&cs=1
Post
Evolutions http://www.ukpost.org.uk/news/articles.htm?aId=575
Sales agent
Arclight http://www.arclightfilms.com/newsletters/berlin_efm/arclight_at_berlin.htm
Distributor
Lion's Gate: UK
Other links
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450238/
Gavin Claxton (director) http://www.myspace.com/gavinclaxton
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Charles Edwards - Film - 1999-2005
* updated 30 December 2008
An Ideal Husband (1999)
In Oliver Parker's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play, Charles plays Jack in the stage production of The Importance of Being Earnest which features in the film. The film is rather fun, better than Oliver Parker's other Wilde film, The Importance of Being Earnest.
Mansfield Park (1999) [link]
Relative Values (2000)
Charles plays Philip Bateman-Tobias. I've read the play, it's alright but Noel Coward has done better.
Batman Begins (2005) [link]
An Ideal Husband (1999)
In Oliver Parker's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play, Charles plays Jack in the stage production of The Importance of Being Earnest which features in the film. The film is rather fun, better than Oliver Parker's other Wilde film, The Importance of Being Earnest.
Mansfield Park (1999) [link]
Relative Values (2000)
Charles plays Philip Bateman-Tobias. I've read the play, it's alright but Noel Coward has done better.
Batman Begins (2005) [link]
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Friday, 3 November 2006
TV randomness - October
Afterlife series 2 episodes 3 and 4 (of 8)
Spooks series 5 episodes 5-8 (of 10)
Jane Eyre
Sharpe's Challenge
Foyle's War series 4
Robin Hood series 1 episode 1 (of 13)
Torchwood episodes 1-3 (of 13)
Spooks series 5 episodes 5-8 (of 10)
Jane Eyre
Sharpe's Challenge
Foyle's War series 4
Robin Hood series 1 episode 1 (of 13)
Torchwood episodes 1-3 (of 13)
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