Charles Edwards - Theatre - The 39 Steps - Broadway (Cort)

Article from Playbill [link]

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Charles Edwards - Television - The Shell Seekers

From hallmarkchannel.com:

"This two-hour original movie is an absorbing saga that features an extraordinary cast including Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, Charles Edwards and Alastair MacKenzie. When Penelope Keeling (Redgrave), the feisty 64-year-old daughter of a famous artist, suffers a mild heart attack, it signals in her the chance and the need to reassess her life – by reflecting on the choices that have defined it – and gives her the chance to revisit her past. Shifting through time, the story of Penelope’s life unfolds – her bohemian childhood in London; her loveless marriage to a naval officer; her relationship with a dashing and romantic military man; her often volatile relationship with her selfish children and her efforts to repair those cracks; and the invaluable worth of her most prized possession – her late father’s exquisite painting, The Shell Seekers, a unifying work of art with the power to bring her family together or destroy the bonds forever. The Shell Seekers premieres Saturday, May 3 (9-11 p.m.)"

From the Associated Press:

"...An exquisite painting links bygone moments in the life of Penelope Keeling, the 64-year-old daughter of a famous artist, in The Shell Seekers, a made-for-TV film starring Vanessa Redgrave that premieres 9 p.m. EDT Saturday [3 May] on the Hallmark Channel. Based on Rosamunde Pilcher's best-selling novel, this is a portrait of a woman who has traveled from her childhood in London through an unhappy marriage and an all-too-brief romance, to her fractious relationship with her children, now grown. How will her late father's painting affect Penelope's efforts to bring her shattered family back together? The film — also featuring Maximilian Schell, Charles Edwards and Alastair MacKenzie — is a remake of a 'Hallmark Hall of Fame' production starring Angela Lansbury that was aired by ABC in 1989..."

Links
IMDB [link]
Hallmark 1|2

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Samuel West

In February, Sam became a patron of the Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus. The press release is here.

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Samuel West - Television - The Long Walk To Finchley

According to an interview with Andrea Riseborough in the Daily Mail The Long Walk To Finchley will be broadcast on BBC4 in early June.

Links
BBC press release [link]
Great Meadow productions [link]

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Dan Stevens - Audio - Day

From the Guardian:

"...Day, by AL Kennedy, read by Dan Stevens. 6hrs, abridged (Random House, £16.99)

Patrick Bishop gave us the facts about the unsung heroes of Britain's second world war bomber squadrons flying dangerous night missions over Germany in his bestseller, Bomber Boys. Kennedy's novel, beginning in 1944, tells the story of Alfred Day, the tail gunner on a Lancaster bomber whose relationship with his fellow crew members - especially his charismatic skipper - make up for the murderous relationship he has with his father. Five years on, sole survivor of his crew and a misfit in civvy street, he signs up as an extra in a war film on location in his old German POW camp. An explosive book, with Dan Stevens not so much reading it as giving an Oscar-winning performance. The great thing about Kennedy is her originality; not just her plot, but the way she writes. How old is he and is he married? Day's interviewer asks.

'You weren't married and had touched only yourself and then fretted about it and you were almost infinitely younger than you thought. Infinitely: a word you'd learn soon - once infinity started to drive up and breathe against you. Infinity is fond of wars, they give it a way to come in.' Not, alas, available in my library. It only accommodates unabridged texts..."

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Dan Stevens

Click the thumbnail below to read an interview with Dan from the March 2008 issue of the UK edition of Esquire:

Samuel West - Telegraph British culture list

Sam is #41 on the Telegraph's list of the 100 most powerful people in British culture:

"...41 Sam West, 41, actor and director. Son of Tim West and Prunella Scales, the Bafta nominated actor won his spurs as a director in 2005 when he became artistic director of Sheffield Theatres..."

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Charles Edwards - Theatre - The 39 Steps - Tony award eligibility

Excerpt from an article about productions eligible for Tony awards:

"...The Tony Awards Administration Committee met on April 10 for the third time this season to decide the eligibility of seven Broadway productions for the 2008 Tony Awards...Charles Edwards will be considered in the Leading Actor in a Play category for his performance in The 39 Steps..."

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Hayley Atwell - Radio - The Leopard

* updated 5 April

From the Guardian:

"...The station [BBC Radio 3] is airing its own adaptation of Giuseppe de Lampedusa's play The Leopard, about changes in Sicilian society during the republic unification of Italy in 1860 through the eyes of an aristocratic family. The drama stars Stanley Townsend and Hayley Atwell..."

The play, which has been adapted by Michael Hastings, will be aired Sunday May 11.

Some more info from the BBC Press Office:

"...The Leopard documents the changes in Sicilian society during the republic unification of Italy in 1860 through the eyes of an aristocratic family headed by Don Fabrizio.
Michael Hastings' new adaptation views the Prince from the prism of his family, servants and his confessor and takes the story to its conclusion 20 years after Don Fabrizio's death..."

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