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Arts & Theatre Interviews

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Heiner Goebbels

Daily Telegraph
20 August 2008

Edinburgh Festival 2008: 'Theatre? I don't know how to do it!'

The restless theatrical innovator Heiner Goebbels talks to Ivan Hewett about his strange new show, which has its world premiere in Edinburgh this month

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Hugo Blick and Sheila Hancock

Daily Telegraph
20 August 2008

'Why are we so afraid to talk about death?'

Writer/director Hugo Blick has made a series of monologues about dying. Serena Davies talks to him and Sheila Hancock, the star of the first film

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Andrew Upton

The Independent
20 August 2008

Andrew Upton: Life in the shadow of his wife

Andrew Upton is used to living in the shadow of his wife Cate Blanchett. He talks to Alice Jones about their relationship, and coming into the spotlight with his latest play

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Michael Grandage

Evening Standard
19 August 2008

The man with the Midas touch.

There is a rumour about Judi Dench that Michael Grandage, the artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse, is keen to dispel. "What have you heard?" he asks with a smile. "That she doesn't read scripts?"

Not true, he insists. But it is the case that when they met to discuss Madame de Sade, a little-known play by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, Dench only read the work afterwards. "What she feeds on is people's enthusiasm," he says. "She wants to know she's going to work with someone with vision."

So it's no wonder she agreed to star. For Grandage, 46, has vision in spades. ...

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Bryn Christopher

Sunday Times
17 August 2008

Pop stars reject, Bryn Christopher, is a winner after all!

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Greta Scacchi

Sunday Times
17 August 2008

Time and Place - Greta Scacchi.

The actor recalls a rowdy childhood in well-to-do Haywards Heath.

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Ruthie and David Henshall

Sunday Times
17 August 2008

Relative Values: Ruthie Henshall and her father, David.

The award-winning musical actress Ruthie Henshall, 41, is starring as Marguerite at London’s Theatre Royal, Haymarket. She is one of four sisters: Susan is 50; Abigail is 44; Noel, Susan’s twin, committed suicide in August last year. Ruthie lives in Suffolk with her husband, the actor and musician Tim Howar, and their children, Lily, 5, and Dolly, 3. Her father, David, 79, a journalist, was managing editor of the London Evening Standard and still writes for the East Anglian Daily Times. He and his wife, Gloria, live in Suffolk

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Elena Roger

Evening Standard
15 August 2008

Playing Piaf.

Elena Roger has liquid blue eyes you could drown in. You find yourself mesmerised by her face, with its chalky white skin and mobile mouth. She is five foot nothing - half feral child.

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Joseph Szabo

The Guardian
14 August 2008

Joseph Szabo's Best Shot.

'They'll be old-timers now. Did they marry? Do they have kids? I'd love to know'

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Calendar Girls

Daily Mail
14 August 2008

As Calendar Girls is turned into a play, the stars reveal: 'Why we're proud to parade our wobbly bits'.

The thought of posing naked for a photo is a nightmare for most women. But when the ladies of the Rylstone and District WI dared to bare for their famous charity calendar, they raised a fortune, as well as a few eyebrows, and inspired a Hollywood hit. Now their story has been turned into a play, and six of Britain's best-loved actresses will be stripping for live theatre audiences across the country. So how do they feel about baring all? And what do they think of their own bodies

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Jim Bowen, Michael Barrymore and Roy Walker

The Guardian
13 August 2008

And now for my second act.

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is alive with veteran entertainers this year. Jim Bowen, Michael Barrymore and Roy Walker tell Brian Logan what brings them

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Graham Vick

The Guardian
13 August 2008

Send in the diggers.

Why does Birmingham Opera Company need 2,500 tonnes of mud to stage a Mozart opera? Its director tells all to Erica Jeal

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Adam Cooper

The Guardian
12 August 2008

Portrait of the artist: Adam Cooper, dancer.

'A teacher at the Royal Ballet School said I would never make it. It spurred me on'

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David Soul

Evening Standard
11 August 2008

That 'gorgeous blond blue-eyed guy' image. That was all bulls**t.

I meet David Soul in the dimly lit basement room of a Cuban-themed bar in Soho, which, were it not for the clean-cut French waiters and the smoking ban, might easily pass as a nightclub set from Starsky and Hutch, the California-based cop show that made Soul globally famous in the 1970s. There is something mildly illicit about the venue, which he has chosen: it's 4.30pm and a sunny day outside, but we're indoors, underground in a windowless room. Soul is drinking white wine and water.

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Camille O'Sullivan

Independent on Sunday
10 August 2008

In the spotlight: How Camille O'Sullivan sashayed from the drawing board to the cabaret stage.

A near-fatal car crash inspired a young architect to swap the drawing board for the cabaret stage

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