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Dateline:
5th September, 2004
Almeida Macbeth
Casting
Emma Fielding will join Simon Russell Beale in the Almeida's production
of Macbeth, which opens on 20th January, 2005, (previews from
13th), booking to 5th March. She will play Lady Macbeth.
John Caird directs the production.
Queen Helen
Helen Mirren is to star as the Queen in a film based on the aftermath
of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Provisionally entitled The
Queen, it will be directed by Stephen Frears and will co-star Martin
Sheen as Tony Blair.
Producer Christine Langan said the film will focus on the events of
the week of the princess' death and how they affected "The Queen,
Britain and the people". No one will play Diana.
The film is expected to go into production in May, 2005.
£50,000 for
Wales Theatre Company
The Wales Theatre Company is to receive £50,000 from the Arts
Outside Cardiff budget for their production of The Trilogy
(Twelfth Night, Cymbeline and The Merchant of Venice)
in Swansea and Llandudno. According to director Michael Bogdanov, other
funding for the £225,000 production comes from grants from Swansea
City Council, Arts Council of Wales, guarantees from the Grand, North
Wales, and New Theatres, plus £20,000 from The Wales Theatre Company
profit from the England leg of the tour of Under Milk Wood.
Marilyn at the King's
Head
Steve Blacks' Missing Marilyn, a play about Marilyn Monroe, will
have its London premiere at the King's Head in Islington later this
month. Starring Sally Day as Monroe and directed by Jonathan Hyde, the
play runs for four weeks, opening on 20th September (previews from 7th).
Lyndhurst and Glover
in Harwood Classic
Nicholas Lyndhurst (best known for playing Rodney in Only Fools and
Horses) and Julian Glover will co-star in a new production of Ronald
Harwood's The Dresser, directed by Peter Hall. It will open at
the Theatre Royal, Norwich, on 2nd November and will then tour to Brighton,
Guildford, Bath and Richmond, before, it is hoped, a West End outing.
Soul Becomes a Brit
David Soul has become a British citizen. The actor, best known for the
70s TV series Starsky and Hutch, swore his oath to Queen and
country at Wood Green Civic Centre last week. He has lived in Highgate
for almost ten years and is currently appearing in Jerry Springer
the Opera. Born in Chicago, he lived for 26 years in Los Angeles,
of which he said, "I spent 26 years in Los Angeles and, although
it is not the end of the world, you can see it from there."
Sweeney Todd
Transfers
The Watermill production of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd is to transfer
from the Trafalgar Studios to the New Ambassadors on 13th October, currently
booking to 15th January, 2005.
The original cast - Paul Hegarty (as Todd), Karen Mann (Mrs Lovett),
Michael Howcroft (Beadle), Stephanie Jacob (Pirelli/Fogg), Rebecca Jackson
(Beggar Woman), Rebecca Jenkins (Johanna), Sam Kenyon (Tobias), David
Ricardo-Pearce (Anthony) and Colin Wakefield (Judge) - will also transfer.
Glee Club on
Tour
Following an extended, critically-acclaimed sell-out run at The Bush
Theatre, a highly successful West End and remounted Octagon Theatre
(Bolton) season, Mike Bradwell’s production of Richard Cameron’s
The Glee Club will begin its first ever national tour at the
West Yorkshire Playhouse on Wednesday 8th September. In the next nine
weeks the tour will visit Leeds, Exeter, Oxford, Warwick, Ipswich, Sevenoaks,
Sheffield and Southport. The cast is Stefan Bednarczyk, Mike Burns,
Steve Garti, James Hornsy, Oliver Jackson, Colin Tarrant.
Tour dates are :
- 8th - 18th September
West Yorkshire Playhouse
- 20th - 25th September
Northcott Exeter
- 27th September – 2nd October
Oxford Playhouse
- 4th - 9th October
Warwick Arts Centre
- 11th - 16th October
New Wolsey Ipswich
- 21st – 23rd Octobe
Sevenoaks Playhouse
- 25th - 30th October
Sheffield Lyceum
- 1st - 6th November
Southport Arts Centre
Newman the Clown
Paul Newman made an unexpected - and very uncharacteristic - appearance
in London last week, as a clown in Zippo's Circus. Billed as Butch Bolognese,
the 79-year ofl actor did a ten minute slapstick routine which involved
having spaghetti poured over his head. It was a special show to entertain
sick and disabled children from organisations which have been helped
by Newmans's Own, a company which has donated over $150m to charities
throughout the world since he set it up as a non-profit organisation
in 1982.
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