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...‘The Motive and the Cue’, Noël Coward Theatre, London, December 9-March 23, nationaltheatre.org.uk; ‘The Hills of California’, Harold Pinter Theatre, London, January 27-June 15, hillsofcaliforniaplay.com...
...He cast James McAvoy as Macbeth, Martin Freeman as Richard III and Kit Harington as Faustus....
...Patriots Almeida Theatre, London It’s a scene worthy of Shakespeare’s Richard III....
...She quotes Rebecca Solnit, Richard Powers’ Pulitzer-prize winning The Overstory, and regales me with the tale behind Robert Hooke creating his Micrographia....
...A third, Dr Richard Myers (the IVF innovator), is at the centre of The Fever Syndrome by Alexis Zegerman (Hampstead Theatre, from March 18)....
...One of his most recent appearances was as a silky, chilling inquisitor in Harold Pinter’s study of persecution, One for the Road....
...asks Richard E Grant in one of cinema’s most deathless lines.)...
...One subject, Harold Pinter, seethed at Brown at a party, and only just declined to hit him, saying “I wouldn’t dirty my fists.”...
...Stepping away from Richard Burton’s mesmerising delivery, he is sprightly, driven, springing about the stage, listening intently, catching the mood of the moment, rolling the rich words across the stage...
...Unlike his friend Harold Pinter, he is a generous and flexible collaborator in the rehearsal room, even after 50 years of validation. As literary criticism, it is frustrating....
...Other promising revivals include Toby Jones and Richard Armitage as Vanya and Astrov in Conor McPherson’s new version of Chekhov’s masterpiece Uncle Vanya (Harold Pinter Theatre, London, from January 14)...
...Elsewhere, however, fine actors such as Sue Johnston and Richard Cordery struggle to make headway with skimpy characters and everyone seems to labour rather too hard to land the laughs....
...Even in 1990, there was something unsavoury about Pretty Woman, the fim starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere; in the #MeToo era it feels positively creepy....
...Harold Pinter Theatre, London to May 2 unclevanyaplay.com...
...Richard Hudson’s set subtly combines the trappings of bourgeois security with a sense of fragility and impermanence: there’s no glass in the mirror; the walls look solid, but aren’t....
...Harold Pinter Theatre, London, to May 2 unclevanyaplay.com...
...Richard Armitage’s restlessly intelligent Astrov, the rural equivalent of an exhausted hospital doctor battling endemic problems, is drowning out memories with booze....
...asks Richard, breezily. In the afternoon, he returns, dressed as that lover....
...If I weren’t doing what I do, I might have been a stage actress in some of the plays I loved as a girl – maybe Chekhov, Henry Gibson, even Harold Pinter....
...Chicago’s critics quickly took note: Richard Christiansen of the Chicago Tribune heralded “an extraordinary group of young players”....
...Notable premieres directed by Sir Peter include Pinter’s “The Homecoming” in 1965, “No Man’s Land” in 1975 and “Betrayal” in 1978....
....), deconstructed Eugene O’Neill with techniques derived from Japanese kabuki and Noh (1992’s The Emperor Jones), and tried to bring Richard Burton’s 1960s production of Hamlet back to life....
...Her siblings include the actress Maria Friedman and the violinist Richard Friedman. They are a remarkably successful group despite the instability of their childhood....
...combining classic drama with a commitment to new work and he (controversially for some at the time) programmed the first ever musical at the National: the phenomenally successful Guys and Dolls (directed by Richard...
...Letter in response to this article: Larkin was enraptured by the Thatcherite ‘blue flash’ / From Richard Wilson...
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