Exclusive: ITV has greenlit an espionage thriller starring and produced by Vigil’s Shaun Evans from Mammoth Screen.
Evans plays John Hughes in Betrayal, which is set in the clandestine world of MI5. Hughes joined MI5 during the war on terror and was at the forefront of averting the biggest terrorist plots on UK soil. Now in his mid 40s and married with two children he’s struggling to adapt to the new MI5, where threats to national security have changed and he’s forced to adapt to the values of a progressive work environment.
The show is co-produced with Navarino Pictures, the nascent production outfit founded by Evans earlier this year. Evans plays Elliot Glover in BBC hit Vigil while other credits include Until I Kill You and Endeavour, in which he stars as Inspector Morse. He is the latest actor to get involved behind the camera with an ITV series,...
Evans plays John Hughes in Betrayal, which is set in the clandestine world of MI5. Hughes joined MI5 during the war on terror and was at the forefront of averting the biggest terrorist plots on UK soil. Now in his mid 40s and married with two children he’s struggling to adapt to the new MI5, where threats to national security have changed and he’s forced to adapt to the values of a progressive work environment.
The show is co-produced with Navarino Pictures, the nascent production outfit founded by Evans earlier this year. Evans plays Elliot Glover in BBC hit Vigil while other credits include Until I Kill You and Endeavour, in which he stars as Inspector Morse. He is the latest actor to get involved behind the camera with an ITV series,...
- 9/19/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Wall to Wall to make Woman in Red for BBC2.
The scandal surrounding 18th century aristocrat Lady Seymour Worsley is to be turned into a one-off docu-drama produced by Wall to Wall for BBC2.
Woman in Red follows Sienna Miller-fronted The Girl, which explored the relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren, and was the last large scale factual drama produced by the Warner Bros-owned indie.
The screenplay, penned by David Eldridge, tells the story of Lady Seymour Worsley, who left her husband and eloped with his best friend.
Lady Worseley, played by Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games), subsequently becomes the subject of a high-profile court case brought against her by her shamed husband, played by Cilla star Aneurin Barnard.
The 90-minute drama is based on Hallie Rubenhold’s book Lady Worsley’s Whim, originally inspired by a painting of Lady Worsley which hangs in a stately home in Yorkshire.
Woman in Red...
The scandal surrounding 18th century aristocrat Lady Seymour Worsley is to be turned into a one-off docu-drama produced by Wall to Wall for BBC2.
Woman in Red follows Sienna Miller-fronted The Girl, which explored the relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren, and was the last large scale factual drama produced by the Warner Bros-owned indie.
The screenplay, penned by David Eldridge, tells the story of Lady Seymour Worsley, who left her husband and eloped with his best friend.
Lady Worseley, played by Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games), subsequently becomes the subject of a high-profile court case brought against her by her shamed husband, played by Cilla star Aneurin Barnard.
The 90-minute drama is based on Hallie Rubenhold’s book Lady Worsley’s Whim, originally inspired by a painting of Lady Worsley which hangs in a stately home in Yorkshire.
Woman in Red...
- 11/21/2014
- ScreenDaily
The Bridesmaids star and the prolific American actor will appear together in a new version of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
Chris O'Dowd will make his Broadway debut alongside James Franco in a new stage version of John Steinbeck's novella Of Mice and Men.
The It Crowd actor, who has made headway in Hollywood since his role in the hit comedy Bridesmaids, will play Lennie, a large ranch worker with learning difficulties, who is seeking employment alongside his friend George Milton.
Franco previously revealed to American chat-show host Stephen Colbert that the production was in the works, and he confirmed additional details at a live Q&A session at a theatre in California.
"I am going to do Of Mice and Men with Chris O'Dowd, directed by this amazing director Anna Shapiro, who won a Tony for the stage version of August: Osage County," he told the audience.
Chris O'Dowd will make his Broadway debut alongside James Franco in a new stage version of John Steinbeck's novella Of Mice and Men.
The It Crowd actor, who has made headway in Hollywood since his role in the hit comedy Bridesmaids, will play Lennie, a large ranch worker with learning difficulties, who is seeking employment alongside his friend George Milton.
Franco previously revealed to American chat-show host Stephen Colbert that the production was in the works, and he confirmed additional details at a live Q&A session at a theatre in California.
"I am going to do Of Mice and Men with Chris O'Dowd, directed by this amazing director Anna Shapiro, who won a Tony for the stage version of August: Osage County," he told the audience.
- 10/23/2013
- by Matt Trueman
- The Guardian - Film News
Rufus Norris will take over as director of the National Theatre from Nicholas Hytner, the publicly funded U.K. theater company said Tuesday. The company, which mixes contemporary plays with classics from Shakespeare and others, is promoting from within its ranks. Norris has been the associate director of the National since 2011 and has directed such plays as James Baldwin’s “The Amen Corner” and David Eldridge’s “Market Boy” at the company’s theaters. Like Hytner (“The Crucible”), he boasts film experience. Norris’ debut feature film “Broken,” a sensitive coming-of-age story, was highly acclaimed when it premiered at Cannes in 2012. Norris will assume his.
- 10/15/2013
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
The director of Broken will suceed Nicholas Hytner from April 2015.
The National Theatre has appointed Rufus Norris to succeed Nicholas Hytner as director of the National Theatre with effect from April 2015.
Norris called the appointment “a great honour” and said he was “thrilled at the prospect and challenge of leading this exceptional organisation”.
After training as an actor, Norris came to prominence as a theatre director, winning Olivier awards for his revival of Cabaret in 2006 and receiving five Tony nominations for his 2008 Broadway production of Les Liasons Dangereuses.
He made his directorial debut in 2009 with short film King Bastard. His debut feature film, Broken, opened Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 and won the Best Film Award at the British Independent Film Awards earlier this year.
Norris has been an associate director at the National Theatre since 2011.
John Makinson, chairman of the National Theatre, described Norris as “an exciting choice, someone who will...
The National Theatre has appointed Rufus Norris to succeed Nicholas Hytner as director of the National Theatre with effect from April 2015.
Norris called the appointment “a great honour” and said he was “thrilled at the prospect and challenge of leading this exceptional organisation”.
After training as an actor, Norris came to prominence as a theatre director, winning Olivier awards for his revival of Cabaret in 2006 and receiving five Tony nominations for his 2008 Broadway production of Les Liasons Dangereuses.
He made his directorial debut in 2009 with short film King Bastard. His debut feature film, Broken, opened Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 and won the Best Film Award at the British Independent Film Awards earlier this year.
Norris has been an associate director at the National Theatre since 2011.
John Makinson, chairman of the National Theatre, described Norris as “an exciting choice, someone who will...
- 10/15/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The director of Broken will suceed Nicholas Hytner from April 2015.
The National Theatre has appointed Rufus Norris to succeed Nicholas Hytner as director of the National Theatre with effect from April 2015.
John Makinson, Chairman of the National Theatre, said: “In setting out to find a new Director for the National Theatre, the Board looked for an individual with a creative reputation that would command the respect and support of British theatre, and with the generosity of spirit that has characterised Nick Hytner’s period as Director. Rufus Norris has both those qualities in abundance. He is an exciting choice, someone who will build on the National Theatre’s present reputation as one of the most admired and innovative performing arts organisations in the world. We are fortunate that he has chosen to join us.
“I should like to thank all my Board colleagues, and in particular my fellow members of the Succession Committee, for the energy...
The National Theatre has appointed Rufus Norris to succeed Nicholas Hytner as director of the National Theatre with effect from April 2015.
John Makinson, Chairman of the National Theatre, said: “In setting out to find a new Director for the National Theatre, the Board looked for an individual with a creative reputation that would command the respect and support of British theatre, and with the generosity of spirit that has characterised Nick Hytner’s period as Director. Rufus Norris has both those qualities in abundance. He is an exciting choice, someone who will build on the National Theatre’s present reputation as one of the most admired and innovative performing arts organisations in the world. We are fortunate that he has chosen to join us.
“I should like to thank all my Board colleagues, and in particular my fellow members of the Succession Committee, for the energy...
- 10/15/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Stage actors – with minimal scope for makeup or prosthetics between scenes – tend to find it easier to age down than up
There are various ways of measuring a play: the number of characters or scenes, the presence or absence of an interval, and the average length of speeches. But Di and Viv and Rose – the Amelia Bullmore tragi-comedy currently having a second, sold-out run at the Hampstead theatre in London – suggests a new statistic: story years.
In 120 minutes of action, Bullmore follows three college friends across almost three decades (1983-2010), which places the play just ahead of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along (which covers 23 years, 1957-80, in the Maria Friedman production that is deservedly about to transfer from the Menier Chocolate Factory to London's West End). These shows travel through history so rapidly that the Simon Stephens play Port, which recently opened at the National, feels almost laggardly...
There are various ways of measuring a play: the number of characters or scenes, the presence or absence of an interval, and the average length of speeches. But Di and Viv and Rose – the Amelia Bullmore tragi-comedy currently having a second, sold-out run at the Hampstead theatre in London – suggests a new statistic: story years.
In 120 minutes of action, Bullmore follows three college friends across almost three decades (1983-2010), which places the play just ahead of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along (which covers 23 years, 1957-80, in the Maria Friedman production that is deservedly about to transfer from the Menier Chocolate Factory to London's West End). These shows travel through history so rapidly that the Simon Stephens play Port, which recently opened at the National, feels almost laggardly...
- 2/21/2013
- by Mark Lawson
- The Guardian - Film News
It's been called the 'dustbin of London' and the 'armpit of the world' – but there are efforts afoot, on TV and in the country's art galleries, to redeem Essex's reputation
We need to talk about Essex. Surely no county has been so systematically defined and reduced. Simon Heffer's now-infamous Daily Telegraph editorial published in 1990 named the vomiting Thatcherites he encountered at Liverpool Street station as examples of "Essex Man". At around the same time, Chigwell provided the setting for the upwardly mobile prison widows in Birds of a Feather. More recently, of course, there has been Buckhurst Hill and Brentwood's "structured reality" pantomime, The Only Way is Essex. And while Channel 4's Educating Essex, filmed in Harlow, was funny and sensitive, its title seemed to imply that to teach an Essex kid anything was a novel idea.
The fact that Essex is maligned is hardly news. "It has...
We need to talk about Essex. Surely no county has been so systematically defined and reduced. Simon Heffer's now-infamous Daily Telegraph editorial published in 1990 named the vomiting Thatcherites he encountered at Liverpool Street station as examples of "Essex Man". At around the same time, Chigwell provided the setting for the upwardly mobile prison widows in Birds of a Feather. More recently, of course, there has been Buckhurst Hill and Brentwood's "structured reality" pantomime, The Only Way is Essex. And while Channel 4's Educating Essex, filmed in Harlow, was funny and sensitive, its title seemed to imply that to teach an Essex kid anything was a novel idea.
The fact that Essex is maligned is hardly news. "It has...
- 1/24/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Our critics' picks of this week's openings, plus your last chance to see and what to book now
• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below
Opening this week
Theatre
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
With the ever-inventive Rupert Goold both writing and directing, there should be no whiff of mothballs about this staged version of the Cs Lewis classic. Threesixtytheatre, Kensington Gardens, London W8 (0844 871 7693), Tuesday until 9 September.
Chariots of Fire
Sprinting in before the rerelease of the 1981 movie and the Olympics, Mike Bartlett's version promises to be no mere screen-to-stage adaptation. A nifty young cast of rising stars alongside some established talent should make sure this is a show that runs and runs. Hampstead theatre, London NW3 (020-7722 9301), Wednesday until 16 June.
Film
Goodbye First Love (dir. Mia Hansen-Løve)
Two young people pick up the romance that first flowered between...
• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below
Opening this week
Theatre
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
With the ever-inventive Rupert Goold both writing and directing, there should be no whiff of mothballs about this staged version of the Cs Lewis classic. Threesixtytheatre, Kensington Gardens, London W8 (0844 871 7693), Tuesday until 9 September.
Chariots of Fire
Sprinting in before the rerelease of the 1981 movie and the Olympics, Mike Bartlett's version promises to be no mere screen-to-stage adaptation. A nifty young cast of rising stars alongside some established talent should make sure this is a show that runs and runs. Hampstead theatre, London NW3 (020-7722 9301), Wednesday until 16 June.
Film
Goodbye First Love (dir. Mia Hansen-Løve)
Two young people pick up the romance that first flowered between...
- 5/6/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Our critics' picks of this week's openings, plus your last chance to see and what to book now
• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below
Opening this weekTheatre
Big and Small
Cate Blanchett plays Lotte, a continuing optimist in a bleak world where she struggles to make a connection with her family and others. Sydney Theatre Company with its award-winning production of Botho Strauß's surreal play. Barbican, London (020-7638 8891), Friday until 29 April.
Miss Julie
Maxine Peake plays the troubled 19th-century aristocrat who wanders into the kitchen and the bed of her father's valet, Jean, one delirious midsummer's eve. David Eldridge adapts Strindberg's troubling play, which caused a scandal when it was first produced. Royal Exchange, Manchester (0161-833 9833), Wednesday until 12 May.
Film
This Must Be The Place (dir. Paolo Sorrentino)
Paolo Sorrentino's English-language debut has Sean Penn as a retired goth rocker living in Dublin.
• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below
Opening this weekTheatre
Big and Small
Cate Blanchett plays Lotte, a continuing optimist in a bleak world where she struggles to make a connection with her family and others. Sydney Theatre Company with its award-winning production of Botho Strauß's surreal play. Barbican, London (020-7638 8891), Friday until 29 April.
Miss Julie
Maxine Peake plays the troubled 19th-century aristocrat who wanders into the kitchen and the bed of her father's valet, Jean, one delirious midsummer's eve. David Eldridge adapts Strindberg's troubling play, which caused a scandal when it was first produced. Royal Exchange, Manchester (0161-833 9833), Wednesday until 12 May.
Film
This Must Be The Place (dir. Paolo Sorrentino)
Paolo Sorrentino's English-language debut has Sean Penn as a retired goth rocker living in Dublin.
- 4/10/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Allen is adapting his 1994 movie for the stage, Matilda wins the public vote at the Whatsonstage awards, and Chortle's female-unfriendly comedy awards shortlist is no laughing matter
Screen to stage
Yet another film is being adapted into a stage musical. This might not sound like news – but the film in question is Woody Allen's Oscar-winning 1994 movie Bullets Over Broadway, and the adapter is Allen himself. You'll recall that the plot follows a struggling writer trying to get a big break into New York theatre. Which all sounds rather wonderfully circular. No word yet on when the show might open or who it might star.
Stage to screen
It's not all one-way traffic, though. Sky Arts announced that it is to broadcast a filmed version of Simon Callow's one-man play about the Bard, Being Shakespeare, while the BBC and Arts Council England unveiled a project of an even more intriguing kind,...
Screen to stage
Yet another film is being adapted into a stage musical. This might not sound like news – but the film in question is Woody Allen's Oscar-winning 1994 movie Bullets Over Broadway, and the adapter is Allen himself. You'll recall that the plot follows a struggling writer trying to get a big break into New York theatre. Which all sounds rather wonderfully circular. No word yet on when the show might open or who it might star.
Stage to screen
It's not all one-way traffic, though. Sky Arts announced that it is to broadcast a filmed version of Simon Callow's one-man play about the Bard, Being Shakespeare, while the BBC and Arts Council England unveiled a project of an even more intriguing kind,...
- 2/24/2012
- by Alistair Smith
- The Guardian - Film News
With British theatre looking backwards, even the one new play that almost everyone enjoyed was a skilful reworking of an 18th-century classic
The British theatre is living off its past. Just think of the plays that left a strong impression in 2011: Caryl Churchill's Top Girls (1982), Harold Pinter's Betrayal (1978), Edward Bond's Saved (1965), Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen (1959) and his Chicken Soup With Barley (1958), and Terence Rattigan's Flare Path (1942). Even the one new play that almost everyone enjoyed, Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors, was a skilful reworking of an 18th-century classic.
I admired Mike Bartlett's 13 at the National and Alan Ayckbourn's Neighbourhood Watch in Scarborough for their ability, in very different ways, to reflect the tenor of the times. Two other old hands, David Hare with South Downs and David Edgar with Written on the Heart, turned in highly accomplished pieces. But, even...
The British theatre is living off its past. Just think of the plays that left a strong impression in 2011: Caryl Churchill's Top Girls (1982), Harold Pinter's Betrayal (1978), Edward Bond's Saved (1965), Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen (1959) and his Chicken Soup With Barley (1958), and Terence Rattigan's Flare Path (1942). Even the one new play that almost everyone enjoyed, Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors, was a skilful reworking of an 18th-century classic.
I admired Mike Bartlett's 13 at the National and Alan Ayckbourn's Neighbourhood Watch in Scarborough for their ability, in very different ways, to reflect the tenor of the times. Two other old hands, David Hare with South Downs and David Edgar with Written on the Heart, turned in highly accomplished pieces. But, even...
- 12/5/2011
- by Michael Billington
- The Guardian - Film News
There's a double helping of the Dane, Wall Street returns, Wallace and Gromit take up presenting – and Robyn goes for broke. Our critics pick this autumn's hottest shows
Theatre
Hamlet
Prepare for the latest battle of the princes. John Simm is first in the field at the Sheffield Crucible; then Rory Kinnear enters the running in a Nicholas Hytner production for the National Theatre. It's not, of course, a contest – but comparisons will be inevitable. Crucible, Sheffield (0114-249 6000), from 16 September; and Olivier, London SE1 (020-7452 3000), from 7 October.
The Thrill of it All
Forced Entertainment continues the British experimental tradition with an evening of vaudevillian capers, Japanese lounge music and tarnished sequins. Nuffield, Lancaster (01524 594151), 12-13 October. Then touring.
Tribes
Nina Raine follows her impressive debut play, Rabbits, with a drama about an unconventional family that has its own private language and rules. At its centre is Billy, who is deaf and...
Theatre
Hamlet
Prepare for the latest battle of the princes. John Simm is first in the field at the Sheffield Crucible; then Rory Kinnear enters the running in a Nicholas Hytner production for the National Theatre. It's not, of course, a contest – but comparisons will be inevitable. Crucible, Sheffield (0114-249 6000), from 16 September; and Olivier, London SE1 (020-7452 3000), from 7 October.
The Thrill of it All
Forced Entertainment continues the British experimental tradition with an evening of vaudevillian capers, Japanese lounge music and tarnished sequins. Nuffield, Lancaster (01524 594151), 12-13 October. Then touring.
Tribes
Nina Raine follows her impressive debut play, Rabbits, with a drama about an unconventional family that has its own private language and rules. At its centre is Billy, who is deaf and...
- 9/14/2010
- by Michael Billington, Peter Bradshaw, Andrew Clements, Robin Denselow, Alison Flood, John Fordham, Lyn Gardner, Jonathan Glancey, Brian Logan, Judith Mackrell, Alexis Petridis, Adrian Searle, Richard Vine
- The Guardian - Film News
New plays highlight 2006 National Theatre slate
LONDON -- New plays by Britain's David Eldridge, America's JT Rogers and Ireland's Conor McPherson highlight the 2006 slate at the National Theatre announced by artistic director Nicholas Hytner Wednesday. Eldridge's new play Market Boy, set in London's Romford Market during the Thatcher years of the mid-1980s, opens at the Olivier Theatre on June 6. "'Market Boy' is what I've been promising for three years, and here it is," said Hytner, who has said throughout his tenure that he wants to bring major modern plays to the National. "It deals with the market place that Thatcher espoused. It couldn't have been written in the '80s as it's about where the '80s would lead us." Rufus Norris, who directed Eldridge's stage version of Festen, which was a massive West End hit last year, will direct the play, his first at the National.
- 2/15/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
'Market Boy' set for '06 National bow
LONDON -- New plays by Britain's David Eldridge, Ireland's Conor McPherson and JT Rogers of the U.S. highlight the 2006 National Theatre slate announced Wednesday by artistic director Nicholas Hytner. Eldridge's new play "Market Boy", set in London's Romford Market during the Thatcher years of the mid-1980s, opens June 6 at the Olivier Theatre. " 'Market Boy' is what I've been promising for three years, and here it is," said Hytner, who has said throughout his tenure that he wants to bring major modern plays to the National. "It deals with the market place that Thatcher espoused. It couldn't have been written in the '80s as it's about where the '80s would lead us."...
- 2/15/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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