Theatre - 24 Hour Plays. Television - The Thick of It. BBC Radio.

• Hattie Morahan joins the previously announced Ruth Wilson and Anna Maxwell-Martin in the 24 Hour Plays [link]
• The Thick of It
• Rebecca Front and Billy Sneddon interviews rebecca|billy
• Positive reviews of series 3 episode 1 1|2
• Armando Iannucci's "My Week" from the Guardian [link]
  
• BBC Radio
• Lia Williams, Hugh Bonneville and Katherine Parkinson star in the Drama on 3 The Lady From the Sea [link]
  
• Khalid Abdalla, Stephen Campbell Moore and Michael Pennington narrate the Afternoon Reading Tales From the Low Countries [link]
• The Richest Man in Britain is a sitcom by Nick Hornby and Giles Smith starring Mark Williams and Russell Tovey. Rosamund Pike is in the last episode of the series. [link]
• Penny Downie, Claudie Blakley and Daniela Denby-Ashe star in Ring Around the Bath [link]
• Julian Rhind-Tutt narrates Bulldog Drummond [link]
• Rory Kinnear, Louise Brealey and Tom Goodman-Hill star in Fair Stood The Wind For France [link]
• Simon Russell Beale narrates, and David Haig, Hugh Bonneville and Joanna Scanlon star in Leaving [link]

Theatre - Eloquent Protest IV

Source: feelgoodtheatre.co.uk
Excerpts from an article in the Independent about the event:

"...Jason Isaacs will be reading out Rifleman [Cyrus] Thatcher's letters...Sam West will be reading Wilfred Owen's "Futility"..."

A tweet from Sam:

"Please come to #EloquentProtest, 3pm, Remembrance Sunday 8th November: http://tinyurl.com/yj5z7pp Good line-up, good cause."

Samuel West. Radio - High Table, Lower Orders series 1. Narration - High Flight.

• Series 1 of High Table, Lower Orders will be repeated on BBC7 from next week [link]
• High Flight will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow [link]

Entertainment news

• Clips:
  
• New Moon, featuring Michael Sheen as Aro [link]
• Bright Star, featuring Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider and Abbie Cornish [link]
  
• Colin Firth will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Outstanding Performance Of The Year Award for A Single Man [link]
• Article by Samantha Morton from the Guardian [link]
  
• Noah Taylor and Sally Hawkins have been cast in Submarine, starring Michael Sheen and Paddy Considine [link]
• Steven Soderbergh, John Simm, Jane Campion, Matt Damon and Colin Firth interviews steven|john|jane|matt|colin
  
• Ricky Gervais will host the Golden Globes [link]
• Woody Allen's latest film has a title, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. The film stars Naomi Watts, Anthony Hopkins and Fenella Woolgar. [link]
• Video of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant promoting the Hollywood Disabilities Forum [link]
  
• Upcoming plays by Laura Wade include Alice (Sheffield) and Posh (Royal Court) 1|2

British Independent Film Awards nominations. Television - The First Men In The Moon. Hattie Morahan, Ruth Wilson, Samuel West.

• British Independent Film Awards
  
• Nominations [link]
• Jasons Isaacs and Solomon discussed the nominations on Film Weekly [link]
  
• Films which have received nominations include:
  In the Loop. Best British Independent Film, Best Director of a British Independent Film (Armando Iannucci), The Douglas Hickox Award (Armando Iannucci), Best Screenplay (Armando Iannucci et al), Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film (Peter Capaldi), Best Supporting Actor (Tom Hollander).
  An Education. Best British Independent Film, Best Director of a British Independent Film (Lone Scherfig), Best Screenplay (Nick Hornby), Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film (Carey Mulligan), Best Supporting Actress (Rosamund Pike), Best Supporting Actor (Alfred Molina).
  
• Mark Gatiss and Rory Kinnear will star in the BBC4 one-off drama The First Men In The Moon [link]
• Guests at the Mrs Klein afterparty include Hattie Morahan, Blake Ritson, Bill Paterson and Lisa Dillon [link]
• Mention of Ruth from an interview with Small Island co-star Naomie Harris:
  

  "What was the last play you saw in London?
  A Streetcar Named Desire at the Donmar Warehouse. My mate Ruth Wilson, who is in Small Island with me, was phenomenal. It moved me so much that I was crying like a baby."

• A tweet from Dan Wooller about Sam and Enron co-star Tom Goodman-Hill:
  

  @saturngirl thought it was fab, follow @exitthelemming and @tgoodmanh who are in the cast and jolly nice #enron

Theatre - Eloquent Protest IV

Source: feelgoodtheatre.co.uk

The Duke of York’s Theatre
St. Martin’s Lane
London WC2N 4BG

8 November, 3pm

Tickets: www.ambassadortickets.com

Tony Benn and Janie Dee will host Eloquent Protest IV, a performance that is a response to the consequences of war. Contributors include Sam West, Jason Isaacs, Robert Powell and Clive Rowe. All profits go to the Mark Wright Project.

Click the picture above for more details.

Dan Stevens - Audio - Crocodile Tears

Dan narrates Crocodile Tears, the eighth Alex Rider book by Anthony Horowitz. It will be released in the UK 12 November, and Australia 1 January.

Television - The Thick of It. BBC Radio.

• The Thick of It
• Articles from the Independent (via AIannucci) and the Times independent|times
• Peter Capaldi interview from the Guardian [link]
  
• Rebecca Front Woman's Hour and GQ interviews woman's hour|gq
• Armando Iannucci interview from the Telegraph [link]
  
• Screencaps from the trailer (click thumbnails for full size):
  
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Jason Isaacs and Lou Hirsch star in the Saturday Play Bullitt [link]
  
• Ruth Wilson, Harry Lloyd and Russell Tovey star in the Drama on 3 The Promise [link]

Samuel West - Film - Runt

[updated 9 August 2013]

IMDB|britfilms
The film is available on Vimeo, on director Jesse Lawrence's channel.

Festivals (1999)

Bologna (awarded Best Film)
Brest (awarded Best Film)
Cannes
Festival Tous Courts (special mention)
Tampere

Related link

The Script Factory

Television - The Thick of It

Screencaps of Rebecca Front from the second teaser (click thumbnails for full size):


Screencaps of Peter Capaldi and Rory Kinnear from the first teaser are here.

Television - The Prisoner

Movieweb has Q&As with Jim Caviezel, Ian McKellen, Ruth Wilson, Lennie James, Jamie Campbell Bower and writer Bill Gallagher [link]

Television - Small Island

The Small Island press pack is here at the BBC Press Office, and includes interviews with Ruth Wilson, Benedict Cumberbatch and author Andrea Levy.

Entertainment news

• Mao's Last Dancer took AUS$4.3 million in its opening week to become the highest-grossing Australian film so far this year [link]
  
• Christina Hendricks and Michael Sheen interviews christina|michael
• Colin Firth will receive the BAFTA/LA humanitarian award [link]
• Damian Lewis, Tara Fitzgerald, Keira Knightley and Dominic Rowan will star in a modern day version of The Misanthrope at the Comedy Theatre 7 December - 13 March 1|2
  
• Pictures from the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus UK premiere 1|2|3
• The Thick of It
• A picture (via AIannucci) [link]
• Screencaps of Peter Capaldi and Rory Kinnear from the teaser (click thumbnails for full size):
  

Dan Stevens, Judi Dench

Excerpt from an article about Dame Judi's criticisms about some young actors wanting stardom rather than developing their craft in the theatre:

"...Dan Stevens, 27, starred with Dame Judi in Hay Fever at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 2006. He said that she set high standards but was an 'incredibly generous actress to work with' who 'always has a twinkle in her eye.'
There was no sign of her treating younger actors differently, he added. 'There are certain actors, and she is definitely one of them, who get very excited by young people coming into the profession. There is a sense that she’s in touch with the heritage of theatre much more than we are today, and although I wasn’t in the wings every night I certainly learnt a lot from her...'"

Theatre - 24 Hour Plays. Sunday Times London theatre feature. BBC Radio.

• Anna Maxwell Martin and Ruth Wilson will take part in the 24-Hour Plays Celebrity Gala at the Old Vic, 1 November [link]
• There will be a Sunday Times London theatre feature about people such as Samuel West, Samantha Bond, Harry Treadaway, Luke Treadaway, Ben Whishaw, Peter Hall, Ian McKellen, Juliet Stevenson and Derek Jacobi. Sam posted a picture from the photoshoot, which took place at the Royal Court. [link]
• BBC Radio:
• Romola Garai will be on Loose Ends promoting Emma [link]
• Tom Hollander and Sheila Hancock will be the readers on Words and Music "Illusions of Power" [link]
• Peter Firth will narrate the Book of the Week The Defence of the Realm [link]
• Stephen Mangan and Peter Serafinowicz will narrate the Book at Bedtime And Another Thing... [link]
• Stephen Campbell Moore and Diana Quick star in the Afternoon Play A Dose of Fame [link]
• Judi Dench and Michael Sheen star in The Importance of Being Earnest [link]
• Jason Isaacs will narrate The Prince and the Pauper for Big Toe Books [link]

Theatre - Three

From David Buckley:


Source: shopfront.org.au

Three
October 22 (preview) 7pm
October 23 8pm
October 24 2pm & 8pm
October 25 5pm
Tickets $10/$15
Bookings 9588 3948
Shopfront: 88 Carlton Pde, Carlton 2218 NSW Australia

Three is a collection of new theatre from the Arts Lab residency at Shopfront Contemporary Art Centre. Come along and become a part of the artist's journey as they unleash their creations onto the unsuspecting public!

Join David Buckley, Sam Dalley and Tim Spencer as the creatures of their imagination take over Shopfront. Expect stories, dreams, singing and dancing with a healthy dose of love, fantasy and disrespect for authority.

As a special offer for students and emerging artists, super cheap $5 tickets are available to the preview performance on Thursday 22nd. After the show the three artists will participate in a question and answer session about their process and the Arts Lab program. This is the perfect opportunity to get an inside view of Arts Lab, and kick start your ideas about being involved in 2010!

For more information about performance times and ticket purchases see the e-flyer.

You can also read about David, Sam and Tim's work at their blog artslab09.

Don't miss this opportunity to see three exciting artists in their element!

Samuel West - Theatre - Enron

From the Evening Standard:

"...Making drama out of crunch
...Jeffrey Archer enjoyed the new play about Enron at the Royal Court Theatre. 'What divides this play from so many in the West End at the moment, is simply how it's a play of its time and is as much a comment on modern society as it is on the rise and fall of Enron,' says Lord Archer. 'Sam West as the greedy, grasping extremely bright CEO, is quite brilliant— but then I've been a fan for many years.'..."

Entertainment news

• An anecdote about Steven Spielberg and Alfred Hitchcock [link]
  
• Quentin Tarantino will make a third Kill Bill film [link]
• Emma
• Radio Times scans [link]
• Preview (via bbccostumedrama) [link]
• An internet fan campaign played a part in securing distribution for Cherrybomb, starring Kimberley Nixon and Rupert Grint [link]
  
• Ben Whishaw, Maxine Peake, Dominic Cooper and Richard Armitage interviews ben|maxine|dominic|richard
• Preview about series 8 of Spooks from The Life of Wylie [link]
• Screencaps of Emily Mortimer from the Harry Brown trailer (click thumbnails for full size):
  
• Hollywood in the 1970s [link]
• Neve Campbell and JJ Feild will star in Owl Song, a film about the Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks [link]

Film - An Education. Rosamund Pike - Theatre - Hedda Gabler. Ruth Wilson. Samuel West - Narration - Jubilee Poetry. BBC Radio.

• An article about An Education from Newsday [link]
• Hedda Gabler is featured in Baz Bamigboye's Daily Mail column [link]
• A nice mention of Ruth Wilson from the Guardian:

  We have had a major eyebrow crush since seeing her as Stella in the Donmar's Streetcar and will therefore be glued to the BBC's Small Island

• BBC Radio
  
• Samuel West, Juliet Stevenson and Samantha Bond narrate Jubilee Poetry, an anthology of poetry written by the Poets Laureate presented by a former Laureate, Andrew Motion [link]
• Toby Stephens and David Morrissey star in the Drama on 3 Becket or The Honour of God [link]
• Chris New and Rob Hastie star in the Classic Serial Beau Geste [link]
• Jemima Rooper, Andrew Scott and Lizzy Watts star in the Afternoon Play Audio Recordings of Human Traffic [link]

Theatre - Enron - TMA nominations

[updated 2 November]



The Chichester production of Enron has been nominated for two TMA Theatre Awards - Lucy Prebble for Best New Play and Samuel West for Best Performance in a Play. Winners will be announced 1 November at the Lyric Hammersmith.

A tweet from Sam:

"#ENRON just got two TMA noms, including me. Hurray! http://tinyurl.com/yc3saaw"

Links

The Stage [link]
whatsonstage.com [link]