20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020
The actor and writer, who wrote an episode of Doctor Who for Rigg, recalls the joy of seeing her flit effortlessly between serious drama and outrageous camp
Ruth Bader Ginsburg remembered by Lisa Beattie FrelinghuysenRead the Observer’s obituaries of 2020 in full
A mid-week matinee. The theatre echoes with the thin, tinny whistling of the audience’s hearing aids. In the shadowed wings, there’s discussion of a much-loved and respected actor. The younger cast members are full of admiration. “I mean, a lovely man, darling,” whispers Diana Rigg as she breezes past me to make her entrance. “But breath like a serpent.”
What first met you was the presence. Diana sailed into a room like a galleon, draped in a stylish shawl, the blond bob framing those famous cheekbones. We were performing together at the Old Vic in Samuel Adamson’s version of All About My Mother,...
The actor and writer, who wrote an episode of Doctor Who for Rigg, recalls the joy of seeing her flit effortlessly between serious drama and outrageous camp
Ruth Bader Ginsburg remembered by Lisa Beattie FrelinghuysenRead the Observer’s obituaries of 2020 in full
A mid-week matinee. The theatre echoes with the thin, tinny whistling of the audience’s hearing aids. In the shadowed wings, there’s discussion of a much-loved and respected actor. The younger cast members are full of admiration. “I mean, a lovely man, darling,” whispers Diana Rigg as she breezes past me to make her entrance. “But breath like a serpent.”
What first met you was the presence. Diana sailed into a room like a galleon, draped in a stylish shawl, the blond bob framing those famous cheekbones. We were performing together at the Old Vic in Samuel Adamson’s version of All About My Mother,...
- 12/13/2020
- by Mark Gatiss
- The Guardian - Film News
Two years ago, Tori Amos brought her first stage production, The Light Princess, to London's Royal National Theater after a five-year wait. The musical, which playwright Samuel Adamson loosely adapted from George MacDonald's 19th-century fairy tale about a princess stripped of her emotions and confined to permanent midair float, opened to positive reviews. As Amos continues to mull a Broadway run for the show, she'll release the musical's cast recording for the first time on October 9, which features original songs penned by the fearless pianist and songwriter. Today, Vulture premieres one of the soundtrack's highlights, "Darkest Hour," featuring Rosalie Craig, who played the titular Princess Althea. "Darkest Hour" is the tortured confessional Althea sings when she's at her breaking point and seems to have lost the will to carry on. "When we reach this point in the musical, even though she has been freed from the shackles of torture...
- 9/24/2015
- by Dee Lockett
- Vulture
Exclusive: American Sniper producer joins Emily Blunt’s ‘Rocky-on-a-bull’ drama, talks new films.
American Sniper producer Andrew Lazar has boarded Emily Blunt drama Bronco Belle as lead Us producer.
As revealed by Screen last week, first-time writer-director Khurram Longi is set to direct the ‘Rocky-on-a-bull’ story about a woman’s quest to become a champion bull-rider.
“Having made American Sniper, another film about the DNA of Americana, I was really drawn to this project,” Lazar told Screen.
“The film is about strong people with strong convictions. The script was undeniable. There is real spectacle in the script so we need to make it in the right way.
Lazar has made first films with the likes of George Clooney, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa and the Wachowskis.
Embankment Films is selling Bronco Belle at the Cannes Marche this week.
Oscar-nominated Lazar, whose credits also include Mortdecai and I Love You Philip Morris, is also producing...
American Sniper producer Andrew Lazar has boarded Emily Blunt drama Bronco Belle as lead Us producer.
As revealed by Screen last week, first-time writer-director Khurram Longi is set to direct the ‘Rocky-on-a-bull’ story about a woman’s quest to become a champion bull-rider.
“Having made American Sniper, another film about the DNA of Americana, I was really drawn to this project,” Lazar told Screen.
“The film is about strong people with strong convictions. The script was undeniable. There is real spectacle in the script so we need to make it in the right way.
Lazar has made first films with the likes of George Clooney, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa and the Wachowskis.
Embankment Films is selling Bronco Belle at the Cannes Marche this week.
Oscar-nominated Lazar, whose credits also include Mortdecai and I Love You Philip Morris, is also producing...
- 5/14/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Songwriter Tori Amos and playwright Samuel Adamson teamed up with director Marianne Elliot to bring a new musical to the stage. After five years, The Light Princess has come to the National Theatre. The musical opened last night, Oct 9, starring Rosalie Craig as Princess Athea. The Light Princess also stars Amy Booth-Steel as Piper, Nick Hendrix as Prince Digby, David Langham as Flowers, Hal Fowler as King Ignacio, Ben Thompson as Zephyrus, and Kane Oliver Parry as Llewelyn. The Light Princess was designed by Rae Smith, who also desgined War Horse.
- 10/10/2013
- by Courtnie Mele
- BroadwayWorld.com
New York -- It might be time to call for a moratorium on stage adaptations of Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Producer David Merrick famously pulled the plug in New York after only four previews on a 1966 musical version that starred Mary Tyler Moore, announcing that he was sparing the public an incredibly dull evening in the theater. Samuel Adamson wrote a dramatic adaptation headlined by Anna Friel that debuted in London in 2009 to mixed reviews. And now the same director, Sean Mathias, has taken a blundering stab at turning it into a Broadway play, this time with a
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- 3/21/2013
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
St Katharine Docks; Theatre Royal, Haymarket; Olivier, National Theatre; Southwark Playhouse, all London
Figures are pressed against a long pane of glass. They are spread-eagled, as if blown there by a huge wind, and aghast. In a restaurant a trio of widows meet on their shared anniversary, to tell the story of their year: one is eager to uphold the tradition, the others impatient to move on. A Muslim shopkeeper is visited by a well-heeled regular customer: she chucks a brick through his window.
In Decade, Rupert Goold has drawn on 20 writers to provide scenes about 9/11 and its legacy, and made an uneven but absorbing evening. His first good decision is to tackle the scepticism which most people will feel at the idea of making a catastrophe into a theatrical event. Miriam Buether's design puts the audience in the Windows on the World restaurant at the World Trade Centre, with...
Figures are pressed against a long pane of glass. They are spread-eagled, as if blown there by a huge wind, and aghast. In a restaurant a trio of widows meet on their shared anniversary, to tell the story of their year: one is eager to uphold the tradition, the others impatient to move on. A Muslim shopkeeper is visited by a well-heeled regular customer: she chucks a brick through his window.
In Decade, Rupert Goold has drawn on 20 writers to provide scenes about 9/11 and its legacy, and made an uneven but absorbing evening. His first good decision is to tackle the scepticism which most people will feel at the idea of making a catastrophe into a theatrical event. Miriam Buether's design puts the audience in the Windows on the World restaurant at the World Trade Centre, with...
- 9/10/2011
- by Susannah Clapp
- The Guardian - Film News
Artistic director Nicholas Hytner says only response to expected funding cuts is to be 'bullish in our programming'
A musical by the singer-songwriter Tori Amos, a new drama by Mike Leigh and Simon Russell Beale as Stalin are all part of a defiantly ambitious programme for the coming year at the National Theatre, with artistic director Nicholas Hytner declaring that the only response to expected funding cuts was to be "bullish in our programming".
Russell Beale's Stalin will be seen in a debut stage play by John Hodge, who wrote screenplays for Danny Boyle's early films, including Shallow Grave, A Life Less Ordinary and Trainspotting.
His script – about an imagined meeting between the author Mikhail Bulgakov and Stalin – was sent in to the National on spec; it is mere coincidence that his old collaborator Boyle's vision of Frankenstein opens at the theatre next month. Alex Jennings will play Bulgakov and Hytner directs.
A musical by the singer-songwriter Tori Amos, a new drama by Mike Leigh and Simon Russell Beale as Stalin are all part of a defiantly ambitious programme for the coming year at the National Theatre, with artistic director Nicholas Hytner declaring that the only response to expected funding cuts was to be "bullish in our programming".
Russell Beale's Stalin will be seen in a debut stage play by John Hodge, who wrote screenplays for Danny Boyle's early films, including Shallow Grave, A Life Less Ordinary and Trainspotting.
His script – about an imagined meeting between the author Mikhail Bulgakov and Stalin – was sent in to the National on spec; it is mere coincidence that his old collaborator Boyle's vision of Frankenstein opens at the theatre next month. Alex Jennings will play Bulgakov and Hytner directs.
- 1/27/2011
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
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