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...But Bonnaire brings real edge to the film, and Maxine Peake is perfect as lover and literary confidante Barbara Bray....
...Peake, who could wrench tears from a hearthstone, is outstanding — a reluctant, shrewd and compassionate moral spokesperson....
...We learn about unsung novels and authors (this being an American publication, Mervyn Peake and Angela Carter are included, at which a fair few British readers will shake their heads)....
...Almeida, London, to February 29 almeida.co.uk Cyrano de Bergerac James McAvoy is sensational in Martin Crimp’s bold new version of the Edmond Rostand classic, which Jamie Lloyd stages as a sort of poetry...
...In The Welkin, Lizzie, the lead character (played by Maxine Peake), is keenly aware of the women’s limited sphere of influence. But she is no moral crusader....
...Clive James recalls fretting that the programme was going to be “pretentious about the one thing and insufficiently serious about the other”....
...UK astronaut Tim Peake may be grounded because of haggling over how much money the UK should contribute to the European Space Agency....
...The Irish playwright and provocateur, who was at the height of his celebrity when he was convicted, was given four sheets of writing paper a day by Governor James Nelson, and the letter he subsequently wrote...
...In a sign of the changing emphasis, James Watt and Martin Dickie, the co-founders of Scottish craft brewer BrewDog, received MBEs....
...Maxine Peake plays the Danish prince in a fresh look at the play by director Sarah Frankcom. And she won’t be alone – there will also be a female player king and a Polonia, rather than Polonius....
...Hamlet, Royal Exchange, Manchester Maxine Peake plays the Danish prince in a fresh look at the play by director Sarah Frankcom, with a female player king and a Polonia, rather than Polonius....
...The Moon King belongs in the tradition of Mervyn Peake as one of those fantasy works set in a world that’s both contemporary and retro....
...Recent critical maulings for Matthew Day Jackson at Hauser & Wirth and James Franco at Pace (both in New York) reveal that the super-stores are sometimes longer on commercial than curatorial skills....
...And it’s represented authoritatively in this volume, with stories from more than 100 authors including Mervyn Peake, Jorge Luis Borges, HP Lovecraft, Daphne du Maurier, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Michael...
...“There’s an appetite for the immersive experience, both physical and phenomenological like James Turrell, or emotional like Bill Viola.” But, I say, no one really likes video....
...Braine’s Joe Lampton (Matthew McNulty) falls in love with married and older Alice (Maxine Peake) but needs rich girl Susan (Jenna-Louise Coleman) to mount the class ladder....
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