Last night was my first visit to Deborah Warner’s production of this great, great play. It won’t be my last. I’ve booked tickets for two further performances and I cannot wait to see it again, and again, and again. I pretend no impartiality when I discuss this great actor. I think her Hedda Gabler is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Simon Russell Beale’
Fiona Shaw in “Mother Courage and Her Children”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Fiona Shaw in Mother Courage", "Hedda Gabler", "Mother Courage and Her Children", Antony Hopkins, Brecht, Daniel Day-Lewis, Deborah Warner, Fiona Shaw, Judi Dench, National Theatre, Simon Russell Beale on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fiona Shaw – Confirmed
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Long Day's Journey into Night", "Mother Courage", Antony Sher, Cleopatra, Deborah Warner, Fiona Shaw, Ralph Fiennes, Sean Penn, Simon Russell Beale on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s here in black and white: Fiona Shaw opens in “Mother Courage and her Children” in a version by Tony Kushner (of “Angels in America” fame), directed by the brilliant Deborah Warner at the National Theatre in September. The poster image is a pastiche of the “shot” of Tony Blair photographing himself on his camera [...]
Terrible Theatre
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Antony Hopkins, Eileen Atkins, Fiona Shaw, Hilarious Researcher, Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Paul Schofield, Simon Russell Beale, Theatre, Vanessa Redgrave, Wife on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had lunch with Hilarious Researcher recently, and she (who is married to an actor, and who likes theatre) and I (who am married to a woman who does not like theatre at all) were discussing what it is to travel across London to see something truly execrable. There is nothing worse than Terrible Theatre: nothing [...]
Words, Words, Words
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Planner, Advertising Planning, Ben Whishawe, Brand, David Tennant, Hamlet, Simon Russell Beale on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
David Tennant’s “Hamlet” opened last night to what appears to be pretty universally good notices. They’re not in the league that was accorded (to my mind, rightly) Simon Russell Beale (which won the plaudit from Benedict Nightingale in “The Times” of being “The best Hamlet in living memory”), nor to Ben Whishaw (who was good – [...]
NYLON Theatrical Spectacular
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Much Ado About Nothing", Fiona Shaw, Nicholas Hytner, Simon Russell Beale, Zoe Wanamaker on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 2nd February 2008 A good week for theatre. A disastrous one for the finances. First was a trip to the sold-out production of “Much Ado About Nothing” at the Olivier, starring Simon Russell Beale (definitely the greatest Shakespearean of the age) and Zoe Wanamaker, directed by Nicholas Hytner, who has revolutionised the National Theatre [...]
