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Twelfth Night -- Theater Review
London :: CA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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British stage legend Peter Hall celebrates his 80th birthday by directing his movie star daughter Rebecca Hall in a lyrical and musical production of Shakespeare's gender-bending comedy "Twelfth Night."...Anthony Ward 's sumptuous design sets the
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Guardian Books podcast: Review of the Year 2010
Reading :: United Kingdom | over 2 years ago
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As we come to the end of the first full year of the Guardian books podcast we take a look back at some of the highlights. We talk comic writing with Booker winner Howard Jacobson, put the novelist and essayist Will Self on the psychiatrist's couch,
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Jamie Oliver signs up celebrity teachers for his 'school'
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | over 2 years ago
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Jamie Oliver has recruited a team of inspirational teachers, including Lord Winston, David Starkey and Alastair Campbell, to try to turn around the lives of teenagers who struggled with school. Other figures such as Rolf Harris, Simon Callow and
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Stop treating actors with contempt
Montreal :: Canada | over 2 years ago
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Suddenly there are a couple of first-rate books about acting...Sure, the shelves of bookshops are always groaning with aspirational "how to" manuals, aimed at suggestible students with rich parents. Such books generally turn out to be as much value
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Checking In: Simon Callow
Rome :: Italy | over 2 years ago
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A big fan of Edinburgh, but not of modern air travel Your favourite destination?...I had my very first theatrical job in the city's Assembly Rooms. The city has the most stunning architecture, and I don't think there is a single spot that doesn't
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Books podcast: Simon Callow and Stephen Fry on life writing
London :: United Kingdom | almost 3 years ago
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In this week's podcast Simon Callow joins us to discuss his "alternative autobiography", My Life in Pieces, and to answer questions sent in via Twitter on subjects such as his favourite young actors, and how his relationship with Shakespeare's
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The Third Man - behind the scenes commentary
Vienna :: Austria | almost 3 years ago
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Oscar wining film The Third Man (1949) has been re-released on DVD and Blu Ray with commentary from assistant director Guy Hamilton, actor Simon Callow and other members of the production team. Hear the commentary and return to the Molkerbastei
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Shakespeare the Man from Stratford, Assembly Hall, Edinburgh
London :: United Kingdom | almost 3 years ago
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His Orlando was bizarre, his Falstaff (twice) less than great, but he did let rip satisfactorily as Titus Andronicus. His task here, in an unpretentious script by RSC governor and brilliant scholar Jonathan Bate, is to give us a taste of the Bard
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From horse's head to star: Simon Callow at Fringe
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | almost 3 years ago
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Simon Callow's first acting job was as the front end of a horse at the Edinburgh Festival 37 years ago. Now he is a star performer with an acclaimed play on Shakespeare at the world's largest annual artistic spree. There are several performances on
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Attack of the flyer mash-ups
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | almost 3 years ago
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So far, they have taken blonde comic Sara Pascoe and given her the eyes and mane of a wolf. And they have taken actor Simon Callow's famous face, snipped it in half, and melded it with, well, practically everyone else's. "Callow's got the perfect-
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