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...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...
...Michael Buffong’s staging is blisteringly acted, though....
...In David Mercatali’s precisely pitched production, Gemma Whelan and Sean Michael Verey give virtuoso lead performances....
...SH sheffieldtheatres.co.uk, 0114 249 6000, to March 21 The Cutting of the Cloth, Southwark Playhouse, London The playwright Michael Hastings, who died in 2011, was one of the Royal Court’s “Angry Young...
...McKellen and Stewart’s ’70s selves are played by Michael Fassbender (lifting McKellen’s Burnley vowels) and James McAvoy (his Professor Xavier a square even when high)....
...But both Grandage and Lloyd made sure they sprinkled a little stardust amid the integrity, casting the likes of Jude Law, Martin Freeman, Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy, who were already famous in a way...
...Orla Corr, director, McAvoy Group. Lesley Cowley, chief executive, Nominet. Marie Crossin, chief executive, CAUSE. James Gale, for services to horseracing....
...expenses Bev Hughes: Former immigration and prisons minister Sir Jeremy Beecham, former chair of Local Government Association Rita Donaghy, former chair of Conciliation and Arbitration Service Tommy McAvoy...
...Michael Hoffman’s The Last Station (), adapted from Jay Parini’s novel, is an enthralling mix of soap opera, melodrama and farce, with a dash of tragedy that becomes pungent in the final scenes....
...Gordon Brown delivered the final blow to Michael Martin personally....
...But there remains big doubts over whether the Commons will elect a Lib Dem Speaker, particularly after the party moved against Michael Martin....
...Whips-House of CommonsDeputy Chief Whip (Treasurer of HM Household) and Minister for the North East of England - The Rt Hon Nick Brown MPGovernment Whip (Comptroller of HM Household) - The Rt Hon Thomas McAvoy...
...Sir Michael Caine does his Stella Street accent; Australia’s Hugh Jackman does American; America’s Scarlett Johansson does English (sort of); and Britain’s Christian Bale does Jamie Oliver cockney....
...reinforces Menzies Campbell’s assrtion that the party is “going like a bomb” in its target seats. 00.00 - Happy Birthday…, Thursday May 5 23.56 - The first Scottish constituency declares, with Tommy McAvoy...
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