‘Mrs Siddons as the Tragic Muse’ by Joshua Reynolds (1784) Last week in Leeds, while staying at the Ibis hotel a short walk from the West Yorkshire Playhouse, I was astonished to learn that the manager of the sister hotel across town was a Mrs Sarah Siddons. The Mrs Siddons, the great eighteenth-century tragedienne, first …
With his chaste designs On classical lines, His elegant curves and neat inclines. For all day long he’d measure and limn Till the ink gave out or the light grew dim … Hugh Chesterton, ‘London Calling Christopher Wren’ A few photos in honour of Sir …
That best portion of a good man’s life His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. William Wordsworth, ‘Tintern Abbey’ My Perfect Mind ended its run at the Young Vic on Saturday (our national tour starts tomorrow in Bristol). We went out on a high note and, in my dressing room before the …
Edward is one of Clive Anderson’s guests on this week’s edition of Radio 4’s Loose Ends. Hear him talk about My Perfect Mind which is currently being revived at the Young Vic ahead of a national tour this autumn. Edward at Broadcasting House The show has once again received rave reviews. Read Michael Coveney’s review for …
Esme Church No gold medals were awarded at the Northern Theatre School in my hometown of Bradford, but the principal, Esme Church, a semi-retired West End and Old Vic actress who’d played Gertrude to Olivier’s Hamlet in 1937, took me aside to give me a pep talk: ‘You’re one of those students who one knows …
It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing … A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It’s the best possible time of being alive. Tom Stoppard, Arcadia Photo by Kathleen Riley Two months after first sporting my …
Part One of a triptych of films, culminating in the PA (Petherbridge Academy) Summer Exhibition.
I recommend the following films from this extensive list: