Dn first caught From A Strange Land, Caroline’s Steinbeis’ joyful comedy drama about finding shared ground, at The Shortest Nights in 2021. Back then the film grabbed us as a work which balanced a light and playful tone with a thematic interest in how different perspectives can converge to find a commonality. It’s about a curious neighbour who visits a family who’ve recently moved into her street but when she arrives in their home she’s given a most unusual greeting. Echoing the work of Richard Curtis, Steinbeis brings a typically British sensibility to the humour in her debut short, something which is always a pleasure to watch when done as deftly as it is here. Dn is delighted to premiere From A Strange Land film on our pages today alongside a deep dive with Steinbeis on her journey from theatre to film, the filmmaking lessons she learnt on set,...
- 8/11/2022
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
Korean Movies Upcoming
Cj Enm Hong Kong has secured the first and exclusive Pay TV, pay-per-view, video-on-demand and over-the-top (Ott) rights in key Southeast Asia markets to a slate of current and upcoming South Korean films. These are to play on the tvN Movies channel in Southeast Asia. Titles include: “The Roundup” (a.k.a. “The Outlaws 2”), which is currently on release and approaching the 100 million landmark; “The Witch: Part 2. The Other One,” which also opened in first place at the theatrical box office; Cj’s own “Decision to Leave,” which earned Park Chan-wook the best director award at Cannes; disaster-action film, “Emergency Declaration,” which played at Cannes last year and will have an August release in Korea; Hyun Bin and Yoo Hae-jin-starring “Confidential Assignment 2”; Don Lee-starring comedy drama “Men of Plastic,” action thriller movie Decibel, from Megabox Plus M; “A Man of Reason” (formerly “The Protector”) directed...
Cj Enm Hong Kong has secured the first and exclusive Pay TV, pay-per-view, video-on-demand and over-the-top (Ott) rights in key Southeast Asia markets to a slate of current and upcoming South Korean films. These are to play on the tvN Movies channel in Southeast Asia. Titles include: “The Roundup” (a.k.a. “The Outlaws 2”), which is currently on release and approaching the 100 million landmark; “The Witch: Part 2. The Other One,” which also opened in first place at the theatrical box office; Cj’s own “Decision to Leave,” which earned Park Chan-wook the best director award at Cannes; disaster-action film, “Emergency Declaration,” which played at Cannes last year and will have an August release in Korea; Hyun Bin and Yoo Hae-jin-starring “Confidential Assignment 2”; Don Lee-starring comedy drama “Men of Plastic,” action thriller movie Decibel, from Megabox Plus M; “A Man of Reason” (formerly “The Protector”) directed...
- 6/30/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Dominic West Tells Us There Are “Tumultuous” Times Ahead For ‘The Crown’ During London Poetry Soiree
Exclusive: Dominic West, who portrays British monarch in-waiting Prince Charles in the upcoming fifth season of The Crown, has told us that season six, which shoots from August, “will be as tumultuous as it gets”, because it will explore the tragic death of Princess Diana.
Season five is already in the can and will stream on Netflix later this year.
West, star of TV hits The Wire and The Affair, and recent movie Downton Abbey: A New Era, spoke to Deadline on Sunday night during a poetry reading at London’s Delaunay restaurant.
The soiree, which included the recital of three T.S. Eliot poems, was held for The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour, an event established thirty years ago by Hart, the novelist, poet and a leading light of London’s literary and theater set until her death in 2011. Hart’s 1991 novel Damage was adapted for the screen by David Hare...
Season five is already in the can and will stream on Netflix later this year.
West, star of TV hits The Wire and The Affair, and recent movie Downton Abbey: A New Era, spoke to Deadline on Sunday night during a poetry reading at London’s Delaunay restaurant.
The soiree, which included the recital of three T.S. Eliot poems, was held for The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour, an event established thirty years ago by Hart, the novelist, poet and a leading light of London’s literary and theater set until her death in 2011. Hart’s 1991 novel Damage was adapted for the screen by David Hare...
- 6/27/2022
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Network: SundanceTV.
Episodes: 18 (hour).
Seasons: Three.
TV show dates: May 23, 2018 — July 21, 2022.
Series status: Ending.
Performers include: Nicola Walker, Annabel Scholey, Deborah Findlay, Anthony Head, Rudi Dharmalingam, Stephen Mangan, Meera Syal, Fiona Button, Barry Atsma, Stephen Tompkinson, Mathew Baynton, Tanya Franks, Chanel Cresswell, Tamara Lawrance. and Claire Rushbrook.
TV show description:
From creator and writer Abi Morgan, The Split TV show unfolds in London. The drama follows Ruth Defoe (Findlay) and her three daughters. The Defoe women are at the center of the city's divorce circuit. When top attorney Hannah (Walker) leaves Defoes for rival firm Noble & Hale, she'll have to start facing off against her own family.
The Defoes specialize in...
Episodes: 18 (hour).
Seasons: Three.
TV show dates: May 23, 2018 — July 21, 2022.
Series status: Ending.
Performers include: Nicola Walker, Annabel Scholey, Deborah Findlay, Anthony Head, Rudi Dharmalingam, Stephen Mangan, Meera Syal, Fiona Button, Barry Atsma, Stephen Tompkinson, Mathew Baynton, Tanya Franks, Chanel Cresswell, Tamara Lawrance. and Claire Rushbrook.
TV show description:
From creator and writer Abi Morgan, The Split TV show unfolds in London. The drama follows Ruth Defoe (Findlay) and her three daughters. The Defoe women are at the center of the city's divorce circuit. When top attorney Hannah (Walker) leaves Defoes for rival firm Noble & Hale, she'll have to start facing off against her own family.
The Defoes specialize in...
- 6/23/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
The BBC and Sister have debuted the trailer for the third season of ‘The Split’ which will launch on BBC One on 4th April 2022 at 9Pm.
Returning for its third and final series, Hannah Stern makes the risky decision to leave her family firm for a competitor in a steamy legal drama about divorce – in and out of the courtroom.
Set in the fast-paced, complex world of London’s high-end divorce circuit, the series is an authentic, multi-layered, witty examination of modern marriage and the legacy of divorce. Following the messy lives of the three Defoe sisters, Hannah (Nicola Walker), Nina (Annabel Scholey) and Rose (Fiona Button) and their formidable mother Ruth (Deborah Findlay), Abi Morgan is set to conclude the trilogy with the most dramatic and heartbreaking series to date as we watch a divorce lawyer confronted by her very own divorce.
Adding fuel to the fire, the catalyst...
Returning for its third and final series, Hannah Stern makes the risky decision to leave her family firm for a competitor in a steamy legal drama about divorce – in and out of the courtroom.
Set in the fast-paced, complex world of London’s high-end divorce circuit, the series is an authentic, multi-layered, witty examination of modern marriage and the legacy of divorce. Following the messy lives of the three Defoe sisters, Hannah (Nicola Walker), Nina (Annabel Scholey) and Rose (Fiona Button) and their formidable mother Ruth (Deborah Findlay), Abi Morgan is set to conclude the trilogy with the most dramatic and heartbreaking series to date as we watch a divorce lawyer confronted by her very own divorce.
Adding fuel to the fire, the catalyst...
- 3/22/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Format
Popular game show format “Fear Factor” is returning for a new season to Belgium’s Sbs-owned commercial TV channel Play4, Banijay Belgium, a Banijay Benelux label has revealed. Belgian comedian Alex Agnew is the host of the show where duos face a series of terrifying challenges to win a cash prize, including tightrope walking between skyscrapers or being submerged underwater in a cage. Originally created by EndemolShine Netherlands, “Fear Factor” has had numerous series in India and the U.S. Following its success, EndemolShine Netherlands created a spin-off for younger viewers, “Cool Factor,” which was popular in Belgium airing for six seasons on Nickelodeon.
Isabelle Dams, CEO of Banijay Belgium said: “Guts, adventure, and excitement are in the very DNA of ‘Fear Factor’ and we have developed challenges which will amaze contestants and viewers in Belgium. Alex Agnew is bold, loud, and ultra-cool, making him the perfect host for the show.
Popular game show format “Fear Factor” is returning for a new season to Belgium’s Sbs-owned commercial TV channel Play4, Banijay Belgium, a Banijay Benelux label has revealed. Belgian comedian Alex Agnew is the host of the show where duos face a series of terrifying challenges to win a cash prize, including tightrope walking between skyscrapers or being submerged underwater in a cage. Originally created by EndemolShine Netherlands, “Fear Factor” has had numerous series in India and the U.S. Following its success, EndemolShine Netherlands created a spin-off for younger viewers, “Cool Factor,” which was popular in Belgium airing for six seasons on Nickelodeon.
Isabelle Dams, CEO of Banijay Belgium said: “Guts, adventure, and excitement are in the very DNA of ‘Fear Factor’ and we have developed challenges which will amaze contestants and viewers in Belgium. Alex Agnew is bold, loud, and ultra-cool, making him the perfect host for the show.
- 3/18/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Abi Morgan, the creator and writer behind BBC series The Split, is making her debut in the directing chair on Season 3 of the show.
Below is a first look at the third season, on which Morgan is helming one of the five episodes; Dee Koppang O’Leary (Bridgerton) is lead director. Cast including Nicola Walker, Stephen Mangan, Annabel Scholey, Fiona Button, Deborah Findlay, Damien Molony and Chukwudi Iwuji are reprising their roles.
The Split is produced by Sister for BBC One, co-produced with Little Chick and AMC Networks, and was re-commissioned by Piers Wenger, Director of BBC Drama; Charlotte Moore, Chief Content Officer BBC; and Kristin Jones, EVP International Programming, AMC Networks. Series three is executive produced by Sister co-founder Jane Featherstone and Morgan.
In the U.S. the show will air on BBC America and be available to stream on AMC Networks’ streaming service Sundance Now. BBC Studios will distribute worldwide.
Below is a first look at the third season, on which Morgan is helming one of the five episodes; Dee Koppang O’Leary (Bridgerton) is lead director. Cast including Nicola Walker, Stephen Mangan, Annabel Scholey, Fiona Button, Deborah Findlay, Damien Molony and Chukwudi Iwuji are reprising their roles.
The Split is produced by Sister for BBC One, co-produced with Little Chick and AMC Networks, and was re-commissioned by Piers Wenger, Director of BBC Drama; Charlotte Moore, Chief Content Officer BBC; and Kristin Jones, EVP International Programming, AMC Networks. Series three is executive produced by Sister co-founder Jane Featherstone and Morgan.
In the U.S. the show will air on BBC America and be available to stream on AMC Networks’ streaming service Sundance Now. BBC Studios will distribute worldwide.
- 10/18/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The Split TV series will have one more run before the final credits roll. The drama series has been renewed for a third and final season on BBC One and SundanceTV. Actors Nicola Walker, Stephen Mangan, Annabel Scholey, Fiona Button, Deborah Findlay, and Chukwudi Iwuji will all return.
The series takes a look at marriage and divorce in the high-end divorce circuit. The second season was a big hit for BBC with six million viewers and 19 million streams.
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The series takes a look at marriage and divorce in the high-end divorce circuit. The second season was a big hit for BBC with six million viewers and 19 million streams.
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- 2/10/2021
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
The BBC and AMC’s SundanceTV have renewed Sister relationship series The Split for a third and final season.
Nicola Walker, Stephen Mangan, Annabel Scholey, Fiona Button, Deborah Findlay and Chukwudi Iwuji are all set to reprise their roles in the drama, which is set in the fast-paced, complex world of London’s high-end divorce circuit.
Created and written by The Iron Lady scribe Abi Morgan, Season 3 has attached Dee Koppang O’Leary as lead director. Little Chick co-produces the drama with Sister.
Morgan said: “It’s great to be back writing for the Defoe Family, and to dive once more into to the complications of their lives and those of their clients. In the final series of this bittersweet trilogy, Hannah faces the heartbreak of her own divorce, and the fight to save her family and her marriage. Siblings clash, past mistakes are exposed and hearts are...
Nicola Walker, Stephen Mangan, Annabel Scholey, Fiona Button, Deborah Findlay and Chukwudi Iwuji are all set to reprise their roles in the drama, which is set in the fast-paced, complex world of London’s high-end divorce circuit.
Created and written by The Iron Lady scribe Abi Morgan, Season 3 has attached Dee Koppang O’Leary as lead director. Little Chick co-produces the drama with Sister.
Morgan said: “It’s great to be back writing for the Defoe Family, and to dive once more into to the complications of their lives and those of their clients. In the final series of this bittersweet trilogy, Hannah faces the heartbreak of her own divorce, and the fight to save her family and her marriage. Siblings clash, past mistakes are exposed and hearts are...
- 2/8/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
The production will be filmed at the Lyttelton Theatre building on London’s South Bank.
The UK’s National Theatre (Nt) is to make its first original film with a screen production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet starring Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley.
The production was first announced last year, intended for stage at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton theatre in London this summer.
That theatrical run was withdrawn due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, the Nt has reimagined it as a 90-minute filmed version, directed by Nt associate Simon Godwin, and adapted for screen by Emily Burns.
The UK’s National Theatre (Nt) is to make its first original film with a screen production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet starring Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley.
The production was first announced last year, intended for stage at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton theatre in London this summer.
That theatrical run was withdrawn due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, the Nt has reimagined it as a 90-minute filmed version, directed by Nt associate Simon Godwin, and adapted for screen by Emily Burns.
- 10/27/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Josh O’Connor, who plays Prince Charles in season 4 of Netflix’s “The Crown,” and BAFTA winner Jessie Buckley are set to star as Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers in “Romeo & Juliet,” a made-for-television production by the U.K.’s National Theatre.
“Romeo & Juliet” was originally scheduled to play this summer to theater audiences, but was called off due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now re-conceived for the screen, this new 90-minute version will be shot over three weeks in the National Theatre’s Lyttelton theater, which will be temporarily transformed into a studio.
Rehearsals will begin in November and filming in December. The production will bow on PBS in the U.S. and on Sky Arts in the U.K. in 2021.
While the National Theatre has broadcast stage productions to cinemas for over a decade through its popular National Theatre Live program, this will be the first time an original...
“Romeo & Juliet” was originally scheduled to play this summer to theater audiences, but was called off due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now re-conceived for the screen, this new 90-minute version will be shot over three weeks in the National Theatre’s Lyttelton theater, which will be temporarily transformed into a studio.
Rehearsals will begin in November and filming in December. The production will bow on PBS in the U.S. and on Sky Arts in the U.K. in 2021.
While the National Theatre has broadcast stage productions to cinemas for over a decade through its popular National Theatre Live program, this will be the first time an original...
- 10/27/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
SundanceTV released the key art and the latest trailer for season two of the witty and emotional drama, The Split, which premieres Thursday, May 21 at Midnight Et/9:00 p.m. Pt. The new art features series stars Nicola Walker as Hannah Defoe, Stephen Mangan (Episodes) as Nathan and Barry Atsma (Hector And The Search For Happiness) as Christie. The six-episode season will air each week on Thursday and Friday at Midnight Et/ 9:00 p.m. Pt beginning Thursday, May 21 and on Friday, May 22. This season finds the Defoes back, at newly merged law firm Noble Hale Defoe, and as former rivals now find themselves on the same side of the table, Hannah’s (Walker) latest case is set to put Nhd firmly on the map. Meanwhile, Rose and James return from their honeymoon with ambitions to start their own family and Nina teeters on the edge, as the consequences of...
- 4/23/2020
- by Kristyn Clarke
- Age of the Nerd
Vulture Watch
Has SundanceTV decided to hold onto what it has, or will it let go and start anew? Is The Split TV show cancelled or renewed for a second season on SundanceTV? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of The Split, season two. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?
What's This TV Show About?
A BBC One and SundanceTV co-production, The Split stars Nicola Walker, Annabel Scholey, Deborah Findlay, Anthony Head, Rudi Dharmalingam, Stephen Mangan, Meera Syal, Fiona Button, Barry Atsma, and Stephen Tompkinson. Unfolding in London, the drama centers on the Defoe women, whose firm is at the center of the city’s divorce circuit. Now that top attorney Hannah (Walker) has left for...
Has SundanceTV decided to hold onto what it has, or will it let go and start anew? Is The Split TV show cancelled or renewed for a second season on SundanceTV? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of The Split, season two. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?
What's This TV Show About?
A BBC One and SundanceTV co-production, The Split stars Nicola Walker, Annabel Scholey, Deborah Findlay, Anthony Head, Rudi Dharmalingam, Stephen Mangan, Meera Syal, Fiona Button, Barry Atsma, and Stephen Tompkinson. Unfolding in London, the drama centers on the Defoe women, whose firm is at the center of the city’s divorce circuit. Now that top attorney Hannah (Walker) has left for...
- 3/10/2020
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Jill Halfpenny, Jonas Armstrong and Rupert Penry-Jones are to star in an identity thriller for British broadcaster Channel 5 from Noel Clarke and Jason Maza’s Unstoppable Film & Television.
The Drowning is the latest drama order for the ViacomCBS network, which has been aggressively ramping up its scripted slate with shows including Cold Call and Penance.
The Drowning starts when Jodie, played by Liar’s Halfpenny, catches sight of Daniel, played by newcomer Cody Molko, a teenage boy, she is convinced she has found her missing son. Whether she is right or not, in that moment her spark of hope is ignited and she commits to a dangerous and transgressive path that will take her to the edge of reason. How far will she go? How far would any of us go to find a missing child?
Since losing her son eight years ago, Jodie has been rebuilding her life...
The Drowning is the latest drama order for the ViacomCBS network, which has been aggressively ramping up its scripted slate with shows including Cold Call and Penance.
The Drowning starts when Jodie, played by Liar’s Halfpenny, catches sight of Daniel, played by newcomer Cody Molko, a teenage boy, she is convinced she has found her missing son. Whether she is right or not, in that moment her spark of hope is ignited and she commits to a dangerous and transgressive path that will take her to the edge of reason. How far will she go? How far would any of us go to find a missing child?
Since losing her son eight years ago, Jodie has been rebuilding her life...
- 2/19/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
What's in store for The Split? SundanceTV just announced the TV show has begun production on its second season.
The drama series, which airs on in the U.K., centers on the Defoe women, whose law firm is at the center of the city’s divorce circuit. The cast includes Nicola Walker, Annabel Scholey, Deborah Findlay, Anthony Head, Rudi Dharmalingam, Stephen Mangan, Meera Syal, Fiona Button, Barry Atsma, and Stephen Tompkinson.
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The drama series, which airs on in the U.K., centers on the Defoe women, whose law firm is at the center of the city’s divorce circuit. The cast includes Nicola Walker, Annabel Scholey, Deborah Findlay, Anthony Head, Rudi Dharmalingam, Stephen Mangan, Meera Syal, Fiona Button, Barry Atsma, and Stephen Tompkinson.
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- 3/22/2019
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Production is underway in London on season two of BBC One and SundanceTV drama The Split from creator Abi Morgan (The Hour) and executive producer Jane Featherstone (Broadchurch).
Set in the messy world of London’s high-end divorce circuit, the legal-world series follows modern marriages and the legacy of divorce. Returning cast includes Nicola Walker, Annabel Scholey, Fiona Button, Deborah Findlay, Stephen Mangan, Rudi Dharmalingam and Barry Atsma.
UK actress and presenter Donna Air will make her first small screen appearance in almost a decade in the second series as one half of a powerful celebrity couple who now wants out of her marriage. Ben Bailey is joining as her husband.
The Split is produced by Sister Pictures for BBC One, co-produced with SundanceTV, and was re-commissioned by Piers Wenger, Controller of BBC Drama, and Charlotte Moore, Director of BBC Content. Series Two is executive produced by Sister Pictures founder Jane Featherstone,...
Set in the messy world of London’s high-end divorce circuit, the legal-world series follows modern marriages and the legacy of divorce. Returning cast includes Nicola Walker, Annabel Scholey, Fiona Button, Deborah Findlay, Stephen Mangan, Rudi Dharmalingam and Barry Atsma.
UK actress and presenter Donna Air will make her first small screen appearance in almost a decade in the second series as one half of a powerful celebrity couple who now wants out of her marriage. Ben Bailey is joining as her husband.
The Split is produced by Sister Pictures for BBC One, co-produced with SundanceTV, and was re-commissioned by Piers Wenger, Controller of BBC Drama, and Charlotte Moore, Director of BBC Content. Series Two is executive produced by Sister Pictures founder Jane Featherstone,...
- 3/21/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Fifty years after his play “Forty Years On,” Alan Bennett is still pining for the England of old. Just as his first play lamented the slipping standards of an old public school and, by extension, the nation at large, so “Allelujah!” sees an ailing National Health Service hospital as symptomatic of a wider national malaise. The show, now playing at Nicholas Hytner’s Bridge Theatre, is full of all the playwright’s signature elements — warmth, wry humor, faith in humankind — but at some point, you have to ask whether his idyllic, old England ever really existed. His nostalgia’s seductive, but mighty sentimental — and maybe, in this misty-eyed political climate, dangerous too.
Set in the geriatric wing of a Yorkshire hospital at full stretch, its future hanging in the balance, “Allelujah!” throws up a collage of characters and a criss-cross of subplots. Among the patients, singing in the hospital’s in-house Oap choir,...
Set in the geriatric wing of a Yorkshire hospital at full stretch, its future hanging in the balance, “Allelujah!” throws up a collage of characters and a criss-cross of subplots. Among the patients, singing in the hospital’s in-house Oap choir,...
- 7/19/2018
- by Matt Trueman
- Variety Film + TV
The 72nd Annual Tony Awards are taking place Sunday evening in New York at Radio City Music Hall, with “Mean Girls” and “Spongebob Squarepants” topping the nominees list at 12 nominations each. Musical “The Band’s Visit” and play revival “Angels in America” took 11 each, while hot-ticket play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” got 10.
Bruce Springsteen will pick up a special Tony for his mega-selling show “Springsteen on Broadway,” as well as John Leguizamo. Critical favorite “The Band’s Visit” is widely considered the title to beat for new musical, while “Harry Potter” looks like the shoo-in for best play.
Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles will host the show.
Keep checking back as the list is updated live.
Best Play:
“The Children”
“Farinelli and The King”
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two” (Winner)
“Junk”
“Latin History for Morons”
Best Musical:
“The Band’s Visit”
“Frozen”
“Mean Girls...
Bruce Springsteen will pick up a special Tony for his mega-selling show “Springsteen on Broadway,” as well as John Leguizamo. Critical favorite “The Band’s Visit” is widely considered the title to beat for new musical, while “Harry Potter” looks like the shoo-in for best play.
Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles will host the show.
Keep checking back as the list is updated live.
Best Play:
“The Children”
“Farinelli and The King”
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two” (Winner)
“Junk”
“Latin History for Morons”
Best Musical:
“The Band’s Visit”
“Frozen”
“Mean Girls...
- 6/11/2018
- by Erin Nyren
- Variety Film + TV
“The Band’s Visit” emerged as the big winner at the 72nd Annual Tony Awards, winning 10 prizes, including Best Musical.
The show, based on a 2007 movie about an Egyptian band that mistakenly finds itself in an isolated village in Israel, also earned prizes for its lead performers, “Monk” star Tony Shalhoub and Katrina Lenk, as well as supporting player Itamar Moses.
Director David Cromer, composer David Yazbek, book writer Itamar Moses were recognized in addition to the show’s orchestrations, sound and lighting design.
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the two-part drama that extended J.K. Rowling’s beloved wizard franchise to Broadway, won six awards, including Best Play. The hit show, which broke the record in its London run by winning nine Olivier Awards, also won prizes for director John Tiffany, as well as for scenic, costume, lighting and sound design.
Also Read: All 12 Egot Winners, From Audrey Hepburn...
The show, based on a 2007 movie about an Egyptian band that mistakenly finds itself in an isolated village in Israel, also earned prizes for its lead performers, “Monk” star Tony Shalhoub and Katrina Lenk, as well as supporting player Itamar Moses.
Director David Cromer, composer David Yazbek, book writer Itamar Moses were recognized in addition to the show’s orchestrations, sound and lighting design.
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the two-part drama that extended J.K. Rowling’s beloved wizard franchise to Broadway, won six awards, including Best Play. The hit show, which broke the record in its London run by winning nine Olivier Awards, also won prizes for director John Tiffany, as well as for scenic, costume, lighting and sound design.
Also Read: All 12 Egot Winners, From Audrey Hepburn...
- 6/11/2018
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
The 72nd annual Tony Awards took place on Sunday, June 10 at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Two previous nominees, composer Sara Bareilles (“Waitress”) and actor Josh Groban, hosted the ceremony that aired on CBS.
While the nominees for these top theater kudos were determined by 51 theater professionals, the winners were voted on by 846 members of the Broadway community. Below, is the full and complete list of 2018 Tonys winners in each of the 26 competitive categories.
See 2018 Tonys online: How to watch 72nd Tony Awards live stream without a TV
Heading into the evening, the British import “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” led among plays with a whopping 10 nominations. That is twice the haul of its closest rival for Best Play, “Farinelli and the King.” Two new musicals – “Mean Girls” and “SpongeBob SquarePants” — earned a leading 12 Tony Awards nominations apiece while a third, “The Band’s Visit,” had to...
While the nominees for these top theater kudos were determined by 51 theater professionals, the winners were voted on by 846 members of the Broadway community. Below, is the full and complete list of 2018 Tonys winners in each of the 26 competitive categories.
See 2018 Tonys online: How to watch 72nd Tony Awards live stream without a TV
Heading into the evening, the British import “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” led among plays with a whopping 10 nominations. That is twice the haul of its closest rival for Best Play, “Farinelli and the King.” Two new musicals – “Mean Girls” and “SpongeBob SquarePants” — earned a leading 12 Tony Awards nominations apiece while a third, “The Band’s Visit,” had to...
- 6/10/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
We’ve unearthed the running order of the 2018 Tony Awards hosted by Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban on CBS on Sunday, June 10. Over the course of upwards of three-and-half-hours, winners will be announced in 26 competitive categories. Below is the order in which the 72nd Tonys will unfold.
The eight design awards will be handed out in the half hour before the show goes live at 8 p.m. Et as will the Tony for Best Orchestrations. Those winners will be showcased throughout the telecast, with inserts of their acceptance speeches.
As usual, the first award on the broadcast will be one of the featured acting races (this year it is on the musical side of the aisle) while the show closes with a big one, Best Musical. In between, the winners of the other 15 Tonys races will be revealed as detailed in the presentation order below.
See 2018 Tony Awards: When does the show start on Sunday,...
The eight design awards will be handed out in the half hour before the show goes live at 8 p.m. Et as will the Tony for Best Orchestrations. Those winners will be showcased throughout the telecast, with inserts of their acceptance speeches.
As usual, the first award on the broadcast will be one of the featured acting races (this year it is on the musical side of the aisle) while the show closes with a big one, Best Musical. In between, the winners of the other 15 Tonys races will be revealed as detailed in the presentation order below.
See 2018 Tony Awards: When does the show start on Sunday,...
- 6/10/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
If awards were handed out for acceptance speeches, Noma Dumezweni would probably have another trophy on her shelf. When she won Britain’s Olivier Award last year for her performance as Hermione Granger in the West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, her powerful speech eloquently linked the shelter of theater with the sanctuary that she, her sister and her mother found in in England when they arrived from Swaziland in 1977. “I am a refugee child,” Dumezweni said through tears.
The actress, who has won over even the few critics not especially dazzled by Potter, will have another chance to move an awards ceremony audience this Sunday: Dumezweni has been Tony-nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Play alongside Susan Brown (Angels in America), Deborah Findlay (The Children), Denise Gough (Angels in America) and Laurie Metcalf (Three Tall Women).
Deadline spoke to Dumezweni about her Tony nomination,...
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Irish actress Denise Gough won her first Olivier Award in 2016 for the starring role as a recovering addict in Duncan Macmillan’s play People, Places and Things, and her second earlier this year for her turn as Harper Pitt in Marianne Elliot’s London revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. Last week, Gough – along with co-stars Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane and Susan Brown – earned the Broadway transfer of Angels a record-setting 11 Tony Award nominations with her spot in one of the season’s most competitive categories: She’ll vie for Best Featured Actress in a Play, alongside her Angels co-star Brown, Noma Dumezweni (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), Deborah Findlay (The Children) and Laurie Metcalf (Three Tall Women).
Though better known in the U.K., Gough has hit New York and hit it hard, reprising both her Angels performance and, prior to that, People, Places & Things at Off Broadway’s St. Ann’s Warehouse (she’s up for a Drama Desk Award for that one).
She’ll soon get an even wider audience with her role as Mathilde de Morny in Colette, the 2018 Sundance Fest biopic starring Keira Knightley as the French novelist, set for a September release by Bleecker Street.
Deadline spoke with Gough just days before her Tony nomination. Reflecting on her breakthrough London successes and Broadway audiences, Roy Cohn and Donald Trump, and Tony Kushner’s famous note-giving, Gough also took a deep dive into Angels’ Harper Pitt, the hallucinating “jack Mormon,” Valium-taking wife of the closeted gay Republican lawyer Joe Pitt. Harper is one of the great roles of the contemporary stage, a magnificent character in a magnificent play, and Denise Gough brings her to life on stage and, here, in this conversation.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.
Deadline: I’m wondering if you had to recalibrate your performance in any way for a New York audience, after London?
Gough: Not really. I mean, I had to change everything because I have a new partner [Lee Pace plays Joe Pitt on Broadway; Russell Tovey played the character in London], so you’re reacting to an entirely different human being. I kind of feel like I’ve got to play two quite different Harpers, which is great.
But I feel like New York just owns this play, so there’s a real sense of it being at home, which I thought would be kind of intimidating but actually it’s really lovely. Like, people know Harper here. The very first night it just felt like everybody knew who she was. There was a tiny bit of that in London, as well that this was the first play I was doing after People, Places, & Things, and I had become something of a…I was everywhere. So it felt a bit like, “This is what Denise Gough does next in London,” and here I just don’t have any of that at all. I’m just playing Harper, with no baggage at all.
Deadline: Are you aware of what other actresses have done with this role?
Gough: I’ve never seen or watched [Angels in America]. I’ve never. And also I just don’t believe in an actor owning a part, you know? I believe that every actress who played Harper, played it for the time they were supposed to play it and they were exactly the right person that was needed to play it at that time. I’m exactly the right person at this time, otherwise I wouldn’t be doing it.
Deadline: And in the earlier productions, there were many different Harpers, whereas the Angel was so associated with Ellen McLaughlin, and Stephen Spinella was always Prior Walter.
Gough: And I’ve been playing Harper for a long time now. And this time around [on Broadway] I realized just how abusive her relationship with Joe is, you know? He gaslights her, tells her she’s crazy, acts like the problem is her taking drugs.
And then you have to ask the question, where is she getting the drugs? Like, she hasn’t left the apartment in four years and he keeps talking to her about taking pills, but if he really didn’t want her to take the pills he could take them away from her. He could stop her from taking them but he doesn’t. Joe has this line in the bar scene with Roy Cohn (Lane) where he says, What I’m afraid of is that what I love about her is the part that’s farthest from the light, farthest from God’s love, and that I’m keeping that alive for something. And I always hear that line and I think, That motherf*cker knows what he’s doing. He’s keeping her doped up in the apartment because it’s easier for him. I’m not saying that he does it consciously, but an abusive relationship doesn’t necessarily have to be somebody battering somebody.
Harper is an incredibly emotionally intelligent woman who was born into a fundamentalist religion that told her that her only role is to be a wife and mother, and she never fit that role. Tony talked to me about how Harper in Utah was like the punk, you know? She was the girl who never washed her hair and wore black eyeliner and punk t-shirts. She wasn’t a sweet little Mormon. She was always fighting. Then she was in love with this man and she knew, she always knew [that he was closeted]. Some of the first things she says in the play are, “Things are collapsing. Lies are surfacing.”
Deadline: There’s a thinking that of all the characters – and I think you touched on it in your description of Joe – Joe is the only one that the play doesn’t ever really forgive.
Gough: He never takes responsibility. If you don’t take responsibility for your actions you can’t move on. At the end of the play he goes back to Harper, and he would go back to lying again. That’s his choice. Joe is a brilliantly written part because of that. It can be difficult for actors to…you know, we all want to be the hero, don’t we? But there’s something incredible about being the person who doesn’t get redemption, and showing that to an audience.
Deadline: Someone once said about Harper that, despite her hallucinations, we meet her not when she’s in the fog of her pills – we meet her on the day the pills don’t work. She’s coming through, the denial is already fading by the time we first see her.
Gough: Yes. Yes. The greatest grief for an addict – and Harper has a mild Valium addiction, that’s how Tony describes her, and he has also said to me that the pills are sort of a side thing, something she uses to stop the truth from coming through – but the greatest devastation for an addict is that the drugs stop working. So you meet Harper at a point when lies are surfacing whether she likes it or f*cking not, you know? Even in her hallucinations, Joe keeps coming to her.
Deadline: In some ways Harper is the truth of the play…
Gough: When she gets described as drug addled and pill popping, I think, God, that’s just so reductive. That’s not her place in this play at all. And politically, especially now with #MeToo, she’s a female making her way in a world that has told her that her only role is to have babies and to be married, to the detriment of her own soul. And she walks away from that. By the end she’s so empowered.
In one of the books I read, Marcia Gay Harden [Harper in the original Broadway production] said something like, Oh, she never learns, she leaves her gay husband but goes off to San Francisco. And I was like, Hang on, her closest confidant and soulmate in this play is Prior [a gay character played by Andrew Garfield]. At every point that she thought she was falling apart, Prior comes along and they kind of steel each other up for the next part of their journey, so why wouldn’t she go to San Francisco? She’s not going to look for a man, she’s going to look for herself. And in my life the gay men are the ones who have always pushed me towards myself more than anyone else.
Deadline: Do you have a favorite of Harper’s speeches? You have one of the great monologues [the “Night Flight To San Francisco” scene near the end of the play]…
Gough: I know, but even Tony Kushner knows that it’s one of the great f*cking monologues. It makes me want to pick something else. [Laughs]. No, of course “Night Flight” is everything, and it’s so healing for me as an actress, too. At the end of it all, I get to walk away with hope. With both Harper and Prior, our journey through the play is devastation. When Andrew and I see each other backstage, we kind of feel like we’re willing the other person on. You’re like, Oh, God, you’re right in the center of your devastation and so am I, and they’re both seeking freedom, and we both get freedom. He gets his epilogue and I get my epilogue. So yeah, I do love doing that speech.
But there’s so much else. There’s loads. Her first speech is wonderful, though it’s really hard to do. It was harder in London. The character is talking to the audience about people who are lonely, and the rhythm of it is kind of…you don’t know whether it’s meant to be funny. And then her imaginary friend appears. London audiences were trying to work her out, whereas in New York as soon as I start speaking I felt the entire audience almost collectively say, Oh, there’s Harper!
Deadline: Much has been said about this era being a perfect time for Angels, with the connection between Donald Trump and the play’s Roy Cohn. Are you guys playing that at all? Does that even enter your minds?
Gough: No, I don’t think so. With this play I have discovered that no matter what you try to do, the play will do whatever it wants. Like, the play undoes you. So if I’m going to try to do anything that is not the play, it won’t work, you know? The beauty of this play is you just do it and it will have its effect.
I remember in London I was really nervous about playing [Roy’s friend] Martin because I’m onstage with Nathan Lane, who I love, and I’m playing a man, and I didn’t want to f*ck it up. So I was really nervous about it, thinking, Oh God, it’s going to look silly, and then the first night I went out and I spoke those words and I thought, Oh, just say the words. It doesn’t f*cking matter – you could be standing here dressed as a chicken.
Deadline: I seem to remember that in the original Broadway production [1993, the first year of Bill Clinton’s presidency], when Martin talks about Republicans taking over the Supreme Court, the Senate and the Oval Office, that speech got a laugh. It does not get a laugh anymore.
Gough: It really doesn’t. What it gets is this really uncomfortable…People can’t laugh about it now because it’s so dark. You kind of think, when this was written audiences must have thought, Aren’t we lucky that’s not how it is anymore? And now you think, Oh, God, how did we let this happen again?
And it’s the confidence of these people. I wanted Martin this time around to be real sharp. These guys know that they’re winning. It’s terrifying. I enjoy playing that scene much more than I did in London, I must say.
Deadline: Tony Kushner has been known to give notes. Has he given you any?
Gough: He gave me one note and that’s all he’s ever given me.
Deadline: You may have set a record.
Gough: Yeah. I was finding a scene really difficult, the scene in the rain. He loves Harper very much, Tony, so I feel like he also knows that it’s a very strangely written scene, that little piece when Harper says, “Water won’t ever accomplish the end, no matter how much you cry. Flood is not the answer, people just float.” I was like, f*ck. How? What? So I asked him and he said, Oh, I dreamt that in its entirety and I’ve never touched it. The thing about Harper is that she is open to emotional interpretation, and Tony let me do that. Now, if it had been bad he would have stopped me.
And we talked about the pills. Joe talks about how Harper’s pill addiction is the problem, and if she just didn’t take pills everything would be fine. I was like, Hang on, where does she f*cking get these pills? I spoke to Tony and he was like, Yeah, from him. And you think, Oh, that’s a whole other…that’s like being kept drugged up by your partner, you know? That added a whole different element for me this time around that I couldn’t quite catch in London, but here I really catch it. So when he shames her – “how many pills today, Buddy?” – and she’s so ashamed of herself, he’s giving them to her.
Deadline: It just struck me, but I think in this production Harper doesn’t give Joe her bottle of pills at the end, right?
Gough: Oh, I think you might have seen the night where I didn’t give them to him because I forgot them! Which was mortifying. Mortifying. F*cking…
Deadline: Then I’m glad I mentioned it. I was going to build some big theory around it.
Gough: No. No. No. But there is something different. In the old production she would pour some pills out and give him some and then she would take the bottle, but in this one she gives him the whole bottle of pills and she walks away with no pills. She leaves them to him. Well that’s what’s meant to happen.
Also in this [production], she kisses Joe at the end, which is an idea of mine. It’s a difficult scene [for the audience] with Joe to be left like that, so I wanted, through Harper, for the audience to find a way to be kind to Joe, too, you know?
Deadline: You’ve won a lot of awards. Are you allowing yourself to think about the Tonys?
Gough: I just can’t get involved in it. I had no idea that I would win an Olivier for it, I really didn’t. I was sure that The Ferryman was going to win everything, so I was really shocked that I won. I was delighted though, because it’s not an easy gig, this. And I can wear them as earrings now because I have two.
But listen, I’m nearly 40 and things took as long as they took just for me to start getting regular work. So the fact that I’m on Broadway with Angels in America, and having done People, Places, & Things in one of the coolest theaters in New York at St. Ann’s Warehouse, I’m living my best life right now. So you know, it’s all cherries and icing at the moment. It’s just so nice. I feel so f*cking lucky.
Deadline: Tell me about Mathilde, the character you play in Colette.
Gough: She’s basically at the forefront of the trans movement, before anybody knew what that word meant. She dressed as a man and she was referred to as a man. At a time when it was illegal for women to wear trousers, she wore trousers, and she and Colette had a seven year love affair, and then she tried to kill herself by committing hara-kiri, and when she was caught doing that she was arrested. She eventually killed herself by sticking her head in an oven. Whether I would play it or not, somebody should play her story fully. Colette is fantastic, and Kiera Knightley is really great in the film, but there are so many female stories that you think, God, if this was a man Tom Hanks would have played it and won Oscars for it 200 times over. It’s just really exciting that we’re at a time when these women’s stories are starting to be considered as leading, proper Hollywood movies. It’s fantastic, isn’t it?...
Though better known in the U.K., Gough has hit New York and hit it hard, reprising both her Angels performance and, prior to that, People, Places & Things at Off Broadway’s St. Ann’s Warehouse (she’s up for a Drama Desk Award for that one).
She’ll soon get an even wider audience with her role as Mathilde de Morny in Colette, the 2018 Sundance Fest biopic starring Keira Knightley as the French novelist, set for a September release by Bleecker Street.
Deadline spoke with Gough just days before her Tony nomination. Reflecting on her breakthrough London successes and Broadway audiences, Roy Cohn and Donald Trump, and Tony Kushner’s famous note-giving, Gough also took a deep dive into Angels’ Harper Pitt, the hallucinating “jack Mormon,” Valium-taking wife of the closeted gay Republican lawyer Joe Pitt. Harper is one of the great roles of the contemporary stage, a magnificent character in a magnificent play, and Denise Gough brings her to life on stage and, here, in this conversation.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.
Deadline: I’m wondering if you had to recalibrate your performance in any way for a New York audience, after London?
Gough: Not really. I mean, I had to change everything because I have a new partner [Lee Pace plays Joe Pitt on Broadway; Russell Tovey played the character in London], so you’re reacting to an entirely different human being. I kind of feel like I’ve got to play two quite different Harpers, which is great.
But I feel like New York just owns this play, so there’s a real sense of it being at home, which I thought would be kind of intimidating but actually it’s really lovely. Like, people know Harper here. The very first night it just felt like everybody knew who she was. There was a tiny bit of that in London, as well that this was the first play I was doing after People, Places, & Things, and I had become something of a…I was everywhere. So it felt a bit like, “This is what Denise Gough does next in London,” and here I just don’t have any of that at all. I’m just playing Harper, with no baggage at all.
Deadline: Are you aware of what other actresses have done with this role?
Gough: I’ve never seen or watched [Angels in America]. I’ve never. And also I just don’t believe in an actor owning a part, you know? I believe that every actress who played Harper, played it for the time they were supposed to play it and they were exactly the right person that was needed to play it at that time. I’m exactly the right person at this time, otherwise I wouldn’t be doing it.
Deadline: And in the earlier productions, there were many different Harpers, whereas the Angel was so associated with Ellen McLaughlin, and Stephen Spinella was always Prior Walter.
Gough: And I’ve been playing Harper for a long time now. And this time around [on Broadway] I realized just how abusive her relationship with Joe is, you know? He gaslights her, tells her she’s crazy, acts like the problem is her taking drugs.
And then you have to ask the question, where is she getting the drugs? Like, she hasn’t left the apartment in four years and he keeps talking to her about taking pills, but if he really didn’t want her to take the pills he could take them away from her. He could stop her from taking them but he doesn’t. Joe has this line in the bar scene with Roy Cohn (Lane) where he says, What I’m afraid of is that what I love about her is the part that’s farthest from the light, farthest from God’s love, and that I’m keeping that alive for something. And I always hear that line and I think, That motherf*cker knows what he’s doing. He’s keeping her doped up in the apartment because it’s easier for him. I’m not saying that he does it consciously, but an abusive relationship doesn’t necessarily have to be somebody battering somebody.
Harper is an incredibly emotionally intelligent woman who was born into a fundamentalist religion that told her that her only role is to be a wife and mother, and she never fit that role. Tony talked to me about how Harper in Utah was like the punk, you know? She was the girl who never washed her hair and wore black eyeliner and punk t-shirts. She wasn’t a sweet little Mormon. She was always fighting. Then she was in love with this man and she knew, she always knew [that he was closeted]. Some of the first things she says in the play are, “Things are collapsing. Lies are surfacing.”
Deadline: There’s a thinking that of all the characters – and I think you touched on it in your description of Joe – Joe is the only one that the play doesn’t ever really forgive.
Gough: He never takes responsibility. If you don’t take responsibility for your actions you can’t move on. At the end of the play he goes back to Harper, and he would go back to lying again. That’s his choice. Joe is a brilliantly written part because of that. It can be difficult for actors to…you know, we all want to be the hero, don’t we? But there’s something incredible about being the person who doesn’t get redemption, and showing that to an audience.
Deadline: Someone once said about Harper that, despite her hallucinations, we meet her not when she’s in the fog of her pills – we meet her on the day the pills don’t work. She’s coming through, the denial is already fading by the time we first see her.
Gough: Yes. Yes. The greatest grief for an addict – and Harper has a mild Valium addiction, that’s how Tony describes her, and he has also said to me that the pills are sort of a side thing, something she uses to stop the truth from coming through – but the greatest devastation for an addict is that the drugs stop working. So you meet Harper at a point when lies are surfacing whether she likes it or f*cking not, you know? Even in her hallucinations, Joe keeps coming to her.
Deadline: In some ways Harper is the truth of the play…
Gough: When she gets described as drug addled and pill popping, I think, God, that’s just so reductive. That’s not her place in this play at all. And politically, especially now with #MeToo, she’s a female making her way in a world that has told her that her only role is to have babies and to be married, to the detriment of her own soul. And she walks away from that. By the end she’s so empowered.
In one of the books I read, Marcia Gay Harden [Harper in the original Broadway production] said something like, Oh, she never learns, she leaves her gay husband but goes off to San Francisco. And I was like, Hang on, her closest confidant and soulmate in this play is Prior [a gay character played by Andrew Garfield]. At every point that she thought she was falling apart, Prior comes along and they kind of steel each other up for the next part of their journey, so why wouldn’t she go to San Francisco? She’s not going to look for a man, she’s going to look for herself. And in my life the gay men are the ones who have always pushed me towards myself more than anyone else.
Deadline: Do you have a favorite of Harper’s speeches? You have one of the great monologues [the “Night Flight To San Francisco” scene near the end of the play]…
Gough: I know, but even Tony Kushner knows that it’s one of the great f*cking monologues. It makes me want to pick something else. [Laughs]. No, of course “Night Flight” is everything, and it’s so healing for me as an actress, too. At the end of it all, I get to walk away with hope. With both Harper and Prior, our journey through the play is devastation. When Andrew and I see each other backstage, we kind of feel like we’re willing the other person on. You’re like, Oh, God, you’re right in the center of your devastation and so am I, and they’re both seeking freedom, and we both get freedom. He gets his epilogue and I get my epilogue. So yeah, I do love doing that speech.
But there’s so much else. There’s loads. Her first speech is wonderful, though it’s really hard to do. It was harder in London. The character is talking to the audience about people who are lonely, and the rhythm of it is kind of…you don’t know whether it’s meant to be funny. And then her imaginary friend appears. London audiences were trying to work her out, whereas in New York as soon as I start speaking I felt the entire audience almost collectively say, Oh, there’s Harper!
Deadline: Much has been said about this era being a perfect time for Angels, with the connection between Donald Trump and the play’s Roy Cohn. Are you guys playing that at all? Does that even enter your minds?
Gough: No, I don’t think so. With this play I have discovered that no matter what you try to do, the play will do whatever it wants. Like, the play undoes you. So if I’m going to try to do anything that is not the play, it won’t work, you know? The beauty of this play is you just do it and it will have its effect.
I remember in London I was really nervous about playing [Roy’s friend] Martin because I’m onstage with Nathan Lane, who I love, and I’m playing a man, and I didn’t want to f*ck it up. So I was really nervous about it, thinking, Oh God, it’s going to look silly, and then the first night I went out and I spoke those words and I thought, Oh, just say the words. It doesn’t f*cking matter – you could be standing here dressed as a chicken.
Deadline: I seem to remember that in the original Broadway production [1993, the first year of Bill Clinton’s presidency], when Martin talks about Republicans taking over the Supreme Court, the Senate and the Oval Office, that speech got a laugh. It does not get a laugh anymore.
Gough: It really doesn’t. What it gets is this really uncomfortable…People can’t laugh about it now because it’s so dark. You kind of think, when this was written audiences must have thought, Aren’t we lucky that’s not how it is anymore? And now you think, Oh, God, how did we let this happen again?
And it’s the confidence of these people. I wanted Martin this time around to be real sharp. These guys know that they’re winning. It’s terrifying. I enjoy playing that scene much more than I did in London, I must say.
Deadline: Tony Kushner has been known to give notes. Has he given you any?
Gough: He gave me one note and that’s all he’s ever given me.
Deadline: You may have set a record.
Gough: Yeah. I was finding a scene really difficult, the scene in the rain. He loves Harper very much, Tony, so I feel like he also knows that it’s a very strangely written scene, that little piece when Harper says, “Water won’t ever accomplish the end, no matter how much you cry. Flood is not the answer, people just float.” I was like, f*ck. How? What? So I asked him and he said, Oh, I dreamt that in its entirety and I’ve never touched it. The thing about Harper is that she is open to emotional interpretation, and Tony let me do that. Now, if it had been bad he would have stopped me.
And we talked about the pills. Joe talks about how Harper’s pill addiction is the problem, and if she just didn’t take pills everything would be fine. I was like, Hang on, where does she f*cking get these pills? I spoke to Tony and he was like, Yeah, from him. And you think, Oh, that’s a whole other…that’s like being kept drugged up by your partner, you know? That added a whole different element for me this time around that I couldn’t quite catch in London, but here I really catch it. So when he shames her – “how many pills today, Buddy?” – and she’s so ashamed of herself, he’s giving them to her.
Deadline: It just struck me, but I think in this production Harper doesn’t give Joe her bottle of pills at the end, right?
Gough: Oh, I think you might have seen the night where I didn’t give them to him because I forgot them! Which was mortifying. Mortifying. F*cking…
Deadline: Then I’m glad I mentioned it. I was going to build some big theory around it.
Gough: No. No. No. But there is something different. In the old production she would pour some pills out and give him some and then she would take the bottle, but in this one she gives him the whole bottle of pills and she walks away with no pills. She leaves them to him. Well that’s what’s meant to happen.
Also in this [production], she kisses Joe at the end, which is an idea of mine. It’s a difficult scene [for the audience] with Joe to be left like that, so I wanted, through Harper, for the audience to find a way to be kind to Joe, too, you know?
Deadline: You’ve won a lot of awards. Are you allowing yourself to think about the Tonys?
Gough: I just can’t get involved in it. I had no idea that I would win an Olivier for it, I really didn’t. I was sure that The Ferryman was going to win everything, so I was really shocked that I won. I was delighted though, because it’s not an easy gig, this. And I can wear them as earrings now because I have two.
But listen, I’m nearly 40 and things took as long as they took just for me to start getting regular work. So the fact that I’m on Broadway with Angels in America, and having done People, Places, & Things in one of the coolest theaters in New York at St. Ann’s Warehouse, I’m living my best life right now. So you know, it’s all cherries and icing at the moment. It’s just so nice. I feel so f*cking lucky.
Deadline: Tell me about Mathilde, the character you play in Colette.
Gough: She’s basically at the forefront of the trans movement, before anybody knew what that word meant. She dressed as a man and she was referred to as a man. At a time when it was illegal for women to wear trousers, she wore trousers, and she and Colette had a seven year love affair, and then she tried to kill herself by committing hara-kiri, and when she was caught doing that she was arrested. She eventually killed herself by sticking her head in an oven. Whether I would play it or not, somebody should play her story fully. Colette is fantastic, and Kiera Knightley is really great in the film, but there are so many female stories that you think, God, if this was a man Tom Hanks would have played it and won Oscars for it 200 times over. It’s just really exciting that we’re at a time when these women’s stories are starting to be considered as leading, proper Hollywood movies. It’s fantastic, isn’t it?...
- 5/9/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
There was plenty to cheer about when the 2018 Tony Awards nominations were announced on May 1. Deserving performers like Michael Cera (“Lobby Hero”), Deborah Findlay (“The Children”) and both Lachanze and Ariana DeBose from “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical” were recognized. However, a slew of talent was left off the list of nominees. Vote in our poll below to let us know which Tony Awards snub made you the angriest and sound off in the comments section.
Though Nathan Lane reaped a bid for playing Roy Cohn in “Angels in America,” he was the only performer from that revival mentioned in the Featured Actor category. That left out Lee Pace, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, and James McArdle. McArdle was particularly shocking, as he had ranked within the top five contenders for the category from the day Gold Derby launched the predictions center.
See 2018 Tony Awards nominations: Full list in all 26 categories
Another ensemble...
Though Nathan Lane reaped a bid for playing Roy Cohn in “Angels in America,” he was the only performer from that revival mentioned in the Featured Actor category. That left out Lee Pace, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, and James McArdle. McArdle was particularly shocking, as he had ranked within the top five contenders for the category from the day Gold Derby launched the predictions center.
See 2018 Tony Awards nominations: Full list in all 26 categories
Another ensemble...
- 5/5/2018
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
“With 11 nominations it’s the most nominated play in Tony history.” I expected to be referencing the Broadway juggernaut “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” when making such a statement, but instead I’m talking about the stunning revival of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America.” David Buchanan and I got together to talk about the biggest takeaways from the 2018 Tony Awards nomination announcement. These two part epics dominated the play categories. (watch our analysis above and check out our take on the musical categories.)
“Cursed Child” shouldn’t be too upset over having its headline stolen. This continuation of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter saga earned 10 nominations, just one fewer than “Angels” and tying with “Coast of Utopia” and the 2010 revival of “Fences” as the second most nominated play ever. David and I agree that the show is far out front to claim Best Play come June 10 as it...
“Cursed Child” shouldn’t be too upset over having its headline stolen. This continuation of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter saga earned 10 nominations, just one fewer than “Angels” and tying with “Coast of Utopia” and the 2010 revival of “Fences” as the second most nominated play ever. David and I agree that the show is far out front to claim Best Play come June 10 as it...
- 5/4/2018
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
I suspect we’ll be seeing more than one silly and misleading “frozen out” reference in coverage of this year’s Tony Awards nominations – starting with that one – but the absence of Frozen in the leading actress categories (Patti Murin and Caissie Levy), and director (Michael Grandage) from the 2018 nominations roster has gotta be a sting for Disney, even with major consolations like nods for Best musical, book and original score.
Though critical praise for Frozen was hardly unanimous, I’d have thought Levy’s performance of “Let It Go” would have provided safe passage. Same for Murin’s charming, barely-leaves-the-stage performance as the underdog Princess Anna, and I’d have nominated either over…But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Here’s a closer, first-reaction look at some of the categories. Just my opinions, of course, and I might very well be fine-tuning and re-thinking right up until...
Though critical praise for Frozen was hardly unanimous, I’d have thought Levy’s performance of “Let It Go” would have provided safe passage. Same for Murin’s charming, barely-leaves-the-stage performance as the underdog Princess Anna, and I’d have nominated either over…But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Here’s a closer, first-reaction look at some of the categories. Just my opinions, of course, and I might very well be fine-tuning and re-thinking right up until...
- 5/1/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Broadway musicals “Mean Girls” and “SpongeBob SquarePants” topped the list of 2018 nominations for the Tony Awards, with each show scoring a dozen noms apiece. Musical “The Band’s Visit” and play revival “Angels in America” took 11 each, while hot-ticket play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” got 10.
Celebrity names also did well this year, with Bruce Springsteen picking up a special Tony for his mega-selling show “Springsteen on Broadway” and nominees on the list “Mean Girls” co-creator Tina Fey as well as actors Denzel Washington (“The Iceman Cometh”), Amy Schumer (“Meteor Shower”), Michael Cera (“Lobby Hero”), Tony Shalhoub (“The Band’s Visit”), Laurie Metcalf, Glenda Jackson (both of “Three Tall Women”), Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane (both from “Angels in America”) and Lauren Ambrose and Diana Rigg (both in “My Fair Lady”).
The shows with the highest tally of Tony nominations aren’t necessarily the frontrunners to win. Critical favorite “The...
Celebrity names also did well this year, with Bruce Springsteen picking up a special Tony for his mega-selling show “Springsteen on Broadway” and nominees on the list “Mean Girls” co-creator Tina Fey as well as actors Denzel Washington (“The Iceman Cometh”), Amy Schumer (“Meteor Shower”), Michael Cera (“Lobby Hero”), Tony Shalhoub (“The Band’s Visit”), Laurie Metcalf, Glenda Jackson (both of “Three Tall Women”), Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane (both from “Angels in America”) and Lauren Ambrose and Diana Rigg (both in “My Fair Lady”).
The shows with the highest tally of Tony nominations aren’t necessarily the frontrunners to win. Critical favorite “The...
- 5/1/2018
- by Gordon Cox
- Variety Film + TV
Every year, the featured acting races at the Tony Awards prove to be the most daunting to predict. Whereas the lead races rarely have more than a dozen possibilities, there is a true embarrassment of riches to sift through when it comes to the supporting players. Before you make your 2018 Tony predictions in advance of the May 1 announcement read our breakdown of these four tough categories based on our official Tony Awards odds.
Featured Actor in a Play
Nathan Lane should send the Tony Administration Committee gift bags for placing him in the Featured category. His towering portrayal of Roy Cohn is likely to win. Lane’s co-star James McArdle should also find a spot for his neurotic Louis. The other sure bet is Anthony Boyle’s heart-wrenching and Olivier winning performance in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”
We could simply fill out the category with the other “Angels...
Featured Actor in a Play
Nathan Lane should send the Tony Administration Committee gift bags for placing him in the Featured category. His towering portrayal of Roy Cohn is likely to win. Lane’s co-star James McArdle should also find a spot for his neurotic Louis. The other sure bet is Anthony Boyle’s heart-wrenching and Olivier winning performance in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”
We could simply fill out the category with the other “Angels...
- 4/30/2018
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
Apocalyptic wastelands aren’t often presented on Broadway stages, but Lucky Kirkwood’s “The Children” presents audiences with life in the countryside after a nuclear fallout. Unlike most end-of-the-world dramas, this play stays indoors and focuses on the inhabitants of a seaside cottage. It’s the intense focus on character that provide Deborah Findlay the opportunity to score a Tony Award nomination for Featured Actress in a Play.
Findlay portrays Hazel, a retired nuclear physicist. She lives with her husband Robin (Ron Cook) in a run down cottage just outside the “exclusion zone,” the area ravaged by earthquakes, tidal waves, and radiation after the power plant which employed the couple experienced a Fukushima like disaster. She has settled nicely into a hippie-fied retired life, full of yoga and living off the land, when an old friend and co-worker Rose (Francesca Annis) appears after a 38-year absence.
Rose’s sudden resurgence shakes Hazel.
Findlay portrays Hazel, a retired nuclear physicist. She lives with her husband Robin (Ron Cook) in a run down cottage just outside the “exclusion zone,” the area ravaged by earthquakes, tidal waves, and radiation after the power plant which employed the couple experienced a Fukushima like disaster. She has settled nicely into a hippie-fied retired life, full of yoga and living off the land, when an old friend and co-worker Rose (Francesca Annis) appears after a 38-year absence.
Rose’s sudden resurgence shakes Hazel.
- 4/29/2018
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
Suffragette writer Abi Morgan says that a teenage hockey match was the inspiration behind BBC One and SundanceTV’s drama The Split, which brings together high-profile divorces, an obsession with other peoples’ relationships and a predominantly female cast and crew.
Morgan, who previously created period drama The Hour and crime thriller River, said that the idea for the six-part series came about while she was watching her daughter’s school game. “I started talking to a mum and she said she was a divorce lawyer and by the end of the hockey match, which I watched very little, I realised it was a great world for a show, with London as the divorce capital of the world,” she says.
The Split looks at divorce through the eyes of the Defoes, a family of female lawyers. Hannah Stern, played by Nicola Walker, has walked out of the family firm to join...
Morgan, who previously created period drama The Hour and crime thriller River, said that the idea for the six-part series came about while she was watching her daughter’s school game. “I started talking to a mum and she said she was a divorce lawyer and by the end of the hockey match, which I watched very little, I realised it was a great world for a show, with London as the divorce capital of the world,” she says.
The Split looks at divorce through the eyes of the Defoes, a family of female lawyers. Hannah Stern, played by Nicola Walker, has walked out of the family firm to join...
- 4/23/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Includes world premieres of Succession and The Split.
The world premiere of the 60-minute pilot episode of HBO’s Succession, written by Jesse Armstrong, the UK creator of Peep Show and Fresh Meat, and directed by Adam McKay, whose credits include The Big Short and Anchorman, will open the ninth edition of Series Mania in Lille on April 27.
Brian Cox, Hiam Abbass and Matthew Macfadyen head the ensemble cast of Succession, which follows the travails of a dysfunctional media dynasty.
Additionally, the Official Competition is comprised of 10 world premieres of original global TV series. They include BBC and Sundance TV series The Split,...
The world premiere of the 60-minute pilot episode of HBO’s Succession, written by Jesse Armstrong, the UK creator of Peep Show and Fresh Meat, and directed by Adam McKay, whose credits include The Big Short and Anchorman, will open the ninth edition of Series Mania in Lille on April 27.
Brian Cox, Hiam Abbass and Matthew Macfadyen head the ensemble cast of Succession, which follows the travails of a dysfunctional media dynasty.
Additionally, the Official Competition is comprised of 10 world premieres of original global TV series. They include BBC and Sundance TV series The Split,...
- 3/28/2018
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
“The Cows” would have made a better title. The poster for Lucy Kirkwood’s new play features its three actors suited up for what looks like a tour of a nuclear power plant, and emblazoned across their bundled-up bodies is her chosen title, “The Children.” This very scary, cautionary drama opened Tuesday at Mtc’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, and there’s no doubt about it. Splashed across all that protective gear, “The Cows” would have been more provocative. In “The Children,” Robin (Ron Cook) and Hazel (Deborah Findlay) talk about their cows as much as they do their four adult children.
- 12/13/2017
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
It seems like divorce talks are heating up. SundanceTV has released two first look photos from season one of The Split TV show. Check them out, above and below. Creator Abi Morgan is writing the six-episode modern relationship saga and is executive producing with Director Jessica Hobbs. The Split premieres on SundanceTV in the Us and BBC One in UK, in 2018. A divorce law drama, The Split stars Nicola Walker, Annabel Scholey, Deborah Findlay, Anthony Head, Rudi Dharmalingam, Stephen Mangan, Meera Syal, Fiona Button, Barry Atsma, and Stephen Tompkinson. Guest stars in the first season of The Split include Mathew Baynton, Tanya Franks, Chanel Cresswell, Tamara Lawrance. and Claire Rushbrook. Read More…...
- 12/4/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
SundanceTV and BBC One have released first-look images of Abi Morgan's divorce drama The Split, produced by Jane Featherstone's Sister Pictures. The six-part drama stars Stephen Mangan (Episodes) and Nicola Walker (River, Last Tango in Halifax) alongside Anthony Head (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Meera Syal (Goodness Gracious Me), Fiona Button (Lip Service), Deborah Findlay (Leaving), Annabel Scholey (Being Human) and Barry Atsma (Hector and the Search for Happiness). It…...
- 12/4/2017
- Deadline TV
A friendly reminder that performances begin tomorrow Tuesday, November 28 for the Manhattan Theatre Club's American premiere of The Royal Court Theatre's production of The Children, the new play by Olivier Award winner Lucy Kirkwood Chimerica, directed by James Macdonald Top Girls at Mtc starring acclaimed London cast members BAFTA Award winner Francesca Annis BBC's Cranford , Olivier Award nominee Ron Cook Juno and the Paycock at The Donmar, and Olivier Award winner Deborah Findlay The National Theatre's Stanley.
- 11/27/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
"You left clues everywhere..." IFC has debuted the first official trailer for an intriguing psychological thriller titled Kaleidoscope, from writer/director Rupert Jones. The film stars Toby Jones as middle-aged man just released from prison. The film is apparently about his relationship to his mother, and asks the question: "is it possible to escape our past?" The cast includes Anne Reid, Sinead Matthews, Manjinder Virk, Karl Johnson, Deborah Findlay, and Frederick Schmidt. This looks like a creepy, mysterious head-trip kind of film, but actually quite good with seemingly lots of twists. Per the description: "At the heart of this modern day Psycho are some unsettling questions: Can we ever escape the role in which we are cast by our early circumstances? Must a perpetrator first be a victim?" This trailer is definitely worth checking out. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Rupert Jones' Kaleidoscope, direct from YouTube: This intense,...
- 11/13/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
BBC One, Sundance TV series heading into production.
Abi Morgan’s BBC One and Sundance TV drama The Split has cast up ahead of production, which kicks off in London next week.
Nicola Walker [pictured centre] (Four Weddings And A Funeral) will lead the six-part drama, alongside Meera Syal (Goodness Gracious Me), Stephen Mangan [pictured right] (Episodes), Fiona Button (Lip Service), Deborah Findlay (Leaving), Annabel Scholey (Being Human), Barry Atsma (Hector And The Search For Happiness) and Stephen Tompkinson (Dci Banks).
Written by Morgan [pictured left], whose credits include Shame, The Iron Lady and The Hour, the series counts Jane Featherstone as an executive producer under her new banner Sister Pictures.
Broadchurch director Jessica Hobbs is directing, with Black Mirror’s Lucy Dyke producing.
The series is an exploration of modern marriage and the legacy of divorce told through the lens of the Defoes, a family of female lawyers working in London’s divorce circuit.
It was commissioned by Piers Wenger, controller of BBC...
Abi Morgan’s BBC One and Sundance TV drama The Split has cast up ahead of production, which kicks off in London next week.
Nicola Walker [pictured centre] (Four Weddings And A Funeral) will lead the six-part drama, alongside Meera Syal (Goodness Gracious Me), Stephen Mangan [pictured right] (Episodes), Fiona Button (Lip Service), Deborah Findlay (Leaving), Annabel Scholey (Being Human), Barry Atsma (Hector And The Search For Happiness) and Stephen Tompkinson (Dci Banks).
Written by Morgan [pictured left], whose credits include Shame, The Iron Lady and The Hour, the series counts Jane Featherstone as an executive producer under her new banner Sister Pictures.
Broadchurch director Jessica Hobbs is directing, with Black Mirror’s Lucy Dyke producing.
The series is an exploration of modern marriage and the legacy of divorce told through the lens of the Defoes, a family of female lawyers working in London’s divorce circuit.
It was commissioned by Piers Wenger, controller of BBC...
- 6/28/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Open Palm Films launches with Dromgoole-directed drama ‘Making Noise Quietly’; first-look image.
Dominic Dromgoole, former artistic director of London’s Globe theatre, has launched film production company Open Palm Films.
The indie outfit has recently wrapped its first production Making Noise Quietly (for which Screen can reveal the first image), a drama which is directed by Dromgoole and is adapted from Robert Holman’s well-received stage play of the same name.
The triptych of war-related stories follows a conscientious objector and a roaming artist during the Second World War; a bereaved mother struggling with the loss of her son who died in the Falklands; and an ageing holocaust survivor who seeks to bring peace to a disturbed young boy in Germany.
The film stars Deborah Findlay (The Lady In The Van), Barbara Marten (Oranges and Sunshine), Trystan Gravelle (National Treasure), Geoffrey Streafeild (Rush), Luke Thompson (Dunkirk) and Matthew Tennyson who reprises his role from the stage...
Dominic Dromgoole, former artistic director of London’s Globe theatre, has launched film production company Open Palm Films.
The indie outfit has recently wrapped its first production Making Noise Quietly (for which Screen can reveal the first image), a drama which is directed by Dromgoole and is adapted from Robert Holman’s well-received stage play of the same name.
The triptych of war-related stories follows a conscientious objector and a roaming artist during the Second World War; a bereaved mother struggling with the loss of her son who died in the Falklands; and an ageing holocaust survivor who seeks to bring peace to a disturbed young boy in Germany.
The film stars Deborah Findlay (The Lady In The Van), Barbara Marten (Oranges and Sunshine), Trystan Gravelle (National Treasure), Geoffrey Streafeild (Rush), Luke Thompson (Dunkirk) and Matthew Tennyson who reprises his role from the stage...
- 11/23/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
"You never know your own neighbors..." Fears about your neighbors being psychos turned into a movie, oh how fun. Magnolia Pictures has debuted a new trailer for the thriller The Ones Below, about a new couple expecting their first child that learns something a bit weird is going on with the couple living below them. Clémence Poésy stars, along with a cast including David Morrissey, Stephen Campbell Moore, Laura Birn and Deborah Findlay. This film has been playing at film festivals like Tiff, London and Berlin so it can't be all that bad, but it doesn't look like that much to it from this trailer. Take a look below. Here's the latest official trailer for David Farr's The Ones Below, found direct on YouTube: A couple expecting their first child discover an an unnerving difference between themselves and the couple living in the flat below them who are also having a baby.
- 4/7/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The first image from the Alan Bennett adaptation has been unveiled as well as the release date.
Sony Pictures has released the first official image from TriStar and BBC Films feature The Lady In The Van showing Dame Maggie Smith in character as the eccentric Miss Shepherd.
The big screen adaptation of writer Alan Bennett’s iconic memoir is directed by long-standing Bennett collaborator Nicholas Hytner.
The film tells the true story of the relationship between Bennett and Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
Sony Pictures has also announced that the film will release in cinemas across the UK on Nov 13, 2015.
The first official picture shows Dame Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey, Harry Potter), on location in London alongside co-star Alex Jennings (The Queen), who plays Bennett.
The movie is being filmed on the very street, and in the...
Sony Pictures has released the first official image from TriStar and BBC Films feature The Lady In The Van showing Dame Maggie Smith in character as the eccentric Miss Shepherd.
The big screen adaptation of writer Alan Bennett’s iconic memoir is directed by long-standing Bennett collaborator Nicholas Hytner.
The film tells the true story of the relationship between Bennett and Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
Sony Pictures has also announced that the film will release in cinemas across the UK on Nov 13, 2015.
The first official picture shows Dame Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey, Harry Potter), on location in London alongside co-star Alex Jennings (The Queen), who plays Bennett.
The movie is being filmed on the very street, and in the...
- 11/5/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Donmar; Aldwych, London; Crucible, Sheffield
Tom Hiddleston's Coriolanus is blazing but bleak, and there's as little love in a 60s sex scandal as there was in Dickens's London
The first time I saw Tom Hiddleston act was at the Donmar six years ago. He was 26, a doleful Cassio to Chiwetel Ejiofor's Othello, and he made a small part look essential. Now he takes centre stage as a blazing Coriolanus. Blazing but bleak. He is the ideal combination of emotional reserve and physical bravura.
Reserve has always been one of the problems of this difficult play. Where do spectators put their trust? The play's martial hero treats the audience as he does the populace – don't say plebs – he despises. He will not show his wounds to the public in order to get their vote. He will not let spectators into his thoughts with a soliloquy.
A couple of years...
Tom Hiddleston's Coriolanus is blazing but bleak, and there's as little love in a 60s sex scandal as there was in Dickens's London
The first time I saw Tom Hiddleston act was at the Donmar six years ago. He was 26, a doleful Cassio to Chiwetel Ejiofor's Othello, and he made a small part look essential. Now he takes centre stage as a blazing Coriolanus. Blazing but bleak. He is the ideal combination of emotional reserve and physical bravura.
Reserve has always been one of the problems of this difficult play. Where do spectators put their trust? The play's martial hero treats the audience as he does the populace – don't say plebs – he despises. He will not show his wounds to the public in order to get their vote. He will not let spectators into his thoughts with a soliloquy.
A couple of years...
- 12/22/2013
- by Susannah Clapp
- The Guardian - Film News
From the Nutcracker to American Psycho, from Mary Poppins to Kurt Vile, our critics pick their must-sees of the festive season
If you wish it could be Christmas every day
Nutcrackers, various
You know it's Christmas in the ballet world by the number of Nutcrackers touring the world's stages. In the UK alone, there are close to a dozen doing the rounds, but the top three remain the Royal Ballet's exquisitely traditional version, the sparky family friendly production by Birmingham Royal Ballet, and English National Ballet's – with the best snow scene of them all. Royal Opera House, London (020-7304 4000), 4 December to 16 January; Birmingham Hippodrome (0844 338 5000), to 12 December; London Coliseum (020-7845 9300), 11 December to 5 January.
Father Christmas
Does Father Christmas use the loo? Does he secretly long for summer? Does he have strong views on the size of chimneys? You bet he does. Raymond Briggs's gorgeous picture book gets a heartwarming makeover for under-sixes.
If you wish it could be Christmas every day
Nutcrackers, various
You know it's Christmas in the ballet world by the number of Nutcrackers touring the world's stages. In the UK alone, there are close to a dozen doing the rounds, but the top three remain the Royal Ballet's exquisitely traditional version, the sparky family friendly production by Birmingham Royal Ballet, and English National Ballet's – with the best snow scene of them all. Royal Opera House, London (020-7304 4000), 4 December to 16 January; Birmingham Hippodrome (0844 338 5000), to 12 December; London Coliseum (020-7845 9300), 11 December to 5 January.
Father Christmas
Does Father Christmas use the loo? Does he secretly long for summer? Does he have strong views on the size of chimneys? You bet he does. Raymond Briggs's gorgeous picture book gets a heartwarming makeover for under-sixes.
- 11/25/2013
- by Lyn Gardner, Michael Billington, Andrew Clements, Alexis Petridis, Judith Mackrell, John Fordham, Brian Logan, Stuart Heritage, Mark Lawson, Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
The likes of Helen Mirren, Imelda Staunton and Julia McKenzie show skills rather than surgery are the way to success
Botox and surgical artifice are not the way for a woman to prolong a career on stage and screen. While it may still be true in Hollywood that a frozen face will keep you in the running for female lead roles, actor Helena Bonham Carter and producer Lili Fini Zanuck roundly decried the practice on Sam Taylor-Wood's edition of The Today Programme on Wednesday. It might be a bit of a niche issue, but it did make me think that Hbc could well be right when she says she is sure she would get less work if she tried to stop her face from changing.
Female British actors of a certain age – oh, let's not be coy, say, above 50 – really are enjoying a golden era. Not only are they...
Botox and surgical artifice are not the way for a woman to prolong a career on stage and screen. While it may still be true in Hollywood that a frozen face will keep you in the running for female lead roles, actor Helena Bonham Carter and producer Lili Fini Zanuck roundly decried the practice on Sam Taylor-Wood's edition of The Today Programme on Wednesday. It might be a bit of a niche issue, but it did make me think that Hbc could well be right when she says she is sure she would get less work if she tried to stop her face from changing.
Female British actors of a certain age – oh, let's not be coy, say, above 50 – really are enjoying a golden era. Not only are they...
- 12/31/2010
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
ITV has ordered another 13 episodes of Law & Order: UK. The show, which stars Bradley Walsh, Jamie Bamber, Harriet Walter and Freema Agyeman, is based on the successful American Law & Order format. The third series of the show premiered last month and attracted guest stars including Rupert Graves, Deborah Findlay and Kevin Doyle. Juliet Stevenson, Tobias Menzies and Nicola Walker have already signed up to appear in the next series. ITV's director of (more)...
- 10/18/2010
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
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