Samuel West. ALRA. Film - Albert Schweitzer.

• Sam presented the Dorothy L. Sayers Award from the Theatre Centre to Michael Lyle (ALRA 2008) in August [link]


• Excerpts from an article about Albert Schweitzer:
  

  "'...Die Arbeitsmoral am Set war sehr hoch, sehr effizient und sehr gelassen,' berichtet Schauspieler Samuel West...
  
  Samuel West, Oxford-Absolvent und Ensemble-Mitglied der britischen Royal Shakespeare Company und durch Literaturverfilmungen bekannt geworden, gibt dem CIA-Agenten Phil Figgis kalt berechnendes Profil...
  Schauspielkollege West attestiert den beiden Hauptdarstellern da auch die höhere Spielklasse: 'Barbara Hershey und Jeroen Krabbè sind absolute Profis – sie gehen in ihren Rollen auf, sie spielen sie nicht...'"

Theatre - The Stage 100

People who are in the Stage 100 include Rupert Goold, John Barrowman, Jeremy Herrin, Peter Hall, Rebecca Hall, Rory Kinnear, Simon Russell Beale, Samuel West and Lucy Prebble. [link]

Theatre - Enron

• Lucy Prebble interview from the Telegraph [link]
• Tom Goodman-Hill interview from the Official London Theatre Guide [link]
  

Entertainment news

• Extract from the book Showgirls, Teen Wolves and Astro Zombies by Michael Adams [link]
  
• Articles about Christmas Cranford 1|2
• London Film Critics' Circle awards
• Nominations [link]
  
• Films which have received nominations include:
  In the Loop. British film of the year, British director of the year (Armando Iannucci), British actor of the year (Peter Capaldi), Screenwriter of the year (Armando Iannucci et al.), Breakthrough British filmmaker (Armando Iannucci).
  An Education. British film of the year, Actress of the year (Carey Mulligan), British actress of the year (Carey Mulligan), British actor in a supporting role (Alfred Molina), British actress in a supporting role (Rosamund Pike), British actress in a supporting role (Olivia Williams), Screenwriter of the year (Nick Hornby).
  A Single Man. British actor of the year (Colin Firth).
  Good. British actor in a supporting role (Jason Isaacs).
  
• John Simm; Kristin Scott Thomas; Gemma Arterton and Carey Mulligan, Vera Farmiga, Mo'Nique, Patricia Clarkson, Robin Wright and Emily Blunt interviews john|kristin|gemma|carey, vera, mo'nique, patricia, robin, emily
  
• A Single Man
• Article about the film from the Independent [link]
• Matthew Goode interview (via ONTD) [link]
  
• Screen Actors Guild award nominees include Colin Firth (A Single Man, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role), Carey Mulligan (An Education, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role), the cast of An Education (Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture), Jon Hamm (Mad Men, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series), Toni Collette (United States of Tara, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series) and the cast of Mad Men (Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series) [link]
• Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender and Christoph Waltz will star in The Talking Cure directed by David Cronenberg [link]

Samuel West - Film - Albert Schweitzer

Montage of clips from the film [link]

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Radio - The Custom of the Country. BBC Radio.

• David Tennant will be on Desert Island Discs [link]
• Julian Rhind-Tutt, Romola Garai and Laurel Lefkow narrate the Afternoon Reading Bright Young Things [link]
• Lucy Prebble will be on Front Row [link]
• Jeremy Northam and Harriet Walter are the readers for Words and Music "Femmes Fatales" [link]
• Tom Goodman-Hill and Hugh Bonneville star in the Afternoon Play Big in Samoa [link]
• Bill Nighy and Andrea Riseborough star in the Saturday Play Private Lives [link]
  
• Tom Hollander and Dan Stevens star in the Classic Serial The Custom of the Country [link]
• Stephanie Cole and Benedict Cumberbatch star in Cabin Pressure [link]

Samuel West - Radio - Words and Music

Sam is one of the readers for Words and Music "Borders" which will be broadcast next Sunday. [link]

BBC Radio

• Michael Fassbender and Mark Ravenhill will be on Loose Ends [link]
  
• Paul Hilton and Hattie Morahan star in The Wire Alex Tripped on My Fairy [link]
  
• Jack Dee and Peter Capaldi star in The News at Bedtime [link]
• Laura Dos Santos and Bill Nighy star in the Saturday Play Educating Rita [link]
• Derek Jacobi, Julian Rhind-Tutt and James D'Arcy are in MR James at Christmas [link]
  
• Simon Russell Beale, Ben Whishaw and Anna Maxwell Martin are in the Chekhov season (via brit_actors) [link]

Film - Albert Schweitzer

• Premieres/screenings
• Berlin (world premiere, 14 December) 1|2|3
  
• Lichtburg (16 December) 1|2
• Königsfeld (17 December) 1|2
  
• Frankfurt (18 December) [link]
  
• Munich (20 December) [link]
• Jeroen Krabbe, Jennifer Ulrich (via JenniferUlrich_) and Armin Rohde interviews jeroen|jennifer|armin

Theatre - Enron, The Misanthrope and Rope. Dan Stevens - Wolf Hall.

[updated 2 August 2015]

Enron

• Tom Goodman-Hill interview from Angel magazine [link]
• Jeremy Paxman's "Discovery of the year" from the Telegraph:
  

  "I loved Lucy Prebble's Enron, which began at Chichester and then transferred to the Royal Court in London. This was a production buzzing with energy and ideas, a weird mixture of satire and vaudeville, which somehow managed to illuminate a prevailing madness. The most telling thing about the whole production, of course, was that by the time it was staged, we were all suffering the consequences of another episode of greed and stupidity, which made the Enron scandal look like a vicarage tea party."

Wolf Hall review from the Daily Express:

"Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s chief adviser, was a man so skilled at manipulation and survival he’d make Peter Mandelson blush. His story is told in the Man Booker-winning novel Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and superbly read by Dan Stevens..."

The Misanthrope

• Damian-Lewis.com has scans from a Sunday Times theatre feature featuring some of The Misanthrope cast (Tara Fitzgerald, Damian Lewis, Keira Knightley), Jessica Hynes, John Simm, Rupert Penry-Jones, Marc Warren and Dominic West (registration is required) [link]
• Stephen Mangan attended The Misanthrope press night [link]

Rope

• Guests at the after party included Hattie Morahan, Ben Miles and Lisa Dillon [link]
• A tweet from Sam West:
  

  "To the Almeida for Rope last night - a properly thrilling thriller. Bertie Carvel and Blake Ritson both remarkable; go! http://bit.ly/YC1wr"

Entertainment news

• An Education
• Carey Mulligan interviews 1|2
  
• Article about the film's production design [link]
• Carey Mulligan will receive the Chopin Virtuosos award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival [link]
• John Simm will star in Hamlet at the Sheffield Crucible (via SimmSpotting) [link]
  
• Martin Freeman, Colin Firth, Jodie Whittaker, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Matthew Goode, Damian Lewis and Kelly Reilly interviews martin|colin|jodie|julian|matthew|damian|kelly
• Golden Globe nominations include Colin Firth (A Single Man) for Best actor in a motion picture (drama) and Carey Mulligan (An Education) for Best actress in a motion picture (drama) [link]
• In the Loop
• Won Best Comedy Film at the British Comedy awards [link]
• Peter Capaldi Late Late Show interview 1|2
  
• Shutter Island will be shown at the Berlinale [link]
• Carey Mulligan and Samantha Morton are on Screen Daily's list of new talent of 2009 [link]
• Samantha Morton has become an honorary associate of the London Film School [link]
  
• Julian Fellowes will write the pilot script for The Vanderbilts (via Televisionary) [link]
• Julianne Moore will receive the Montecito Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival [link]
• A review of Stanley Kubrick: The Film that Never Was [link]
• A Single Man and Mad Men are in the AFI's top ten productions in film and television [link]
• Romola Garai will play Masha in Three Sisters at the Lyric Hammersmith from 25 January to 20 February 2010. Previews are from 15 January. [link]

Samuel West - Narration - The Private Life of a Christmas Masterpiece. Samuel West, Hattie Morahan - Radio - Words and Music.

• The Private Life of a Christmas Masterpiece will be broadcast on BBC2 on Christmas Day [link]
• Sam and Hattie are the readers for Words and Music "Young and Easy" which will be repeated on 28 December [link]

Theatre - Sunday Times theatre feature. Lucy Prebble - Theatre. Dan Stevens. Radio - Guilty Until Proved Innocent. Radio - The Coral Thief. BBC Radio.

• Momentary Bursts of Enthusiasm has some scans from the Sunday Times, featuring people such as Ben Whishaw, John Simm, Ruth Wilson, Hayley Atwell, Sam West and Anna Maxwell Martin; and the Official London Theatre Guide has an article about the photoshoot.
• A discussion on Broadcasting House about female playwrights included contributions from Lucy Prebble and Alia Bano [link]
• BBC Radio
• The Afternoon Play Guilty Until Proved Innocent will be broadcast 16 December [link]
  
• Dan will narrate the Book at Bedtime The Coral Thief next month (via The Richard Armitage Board) [link]
• Rupert Penry-Jones was on Loose Ends [link]
  
• Kevin Eldon, Burn Gorman and Emma Fielding star in the Saturday Play The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [link]
• Lenny Henry, Lauren Mote and Lizzy Watts star in the Classic Serial Matilda [link]
• Peter Capaldi narrates the Afternoon Reading Sputnik "The First King of Mars" [link]
• Hugh Bonneville narrates A Short History of Gothic "Markheim" [link]

Samuel West. Audio - The Vengeance of Morbius. Theatre - Enron. Theatre - Waste. Equity - Manifesto for Theatre.

The Vengeance of Morbius will be broadcast on BBC7 this Friday (via BBC7 newsletter).

Enron mention from the Guardian:

"...Lucy Prebble produced one of the most incisive political dramas of the decade. Rupert Goold directed it with dazzle, like a hi-tech danse macabre; among raptor puppets and neon, Samuel West turned memorably from smoothie chops to shambles..."

His parents Prunella Scales and Timothy West mentioned Sam's Whatsonstage award nomination at the awards' launch party (via MonaMCMLXX).

Waste is on the Times' list of the best theatre of the decade:

"...Another excellent Granville Barker revival, Waste, felt uncannily relevant, dwelling on such high Edwardian topics as the disestablishment of the Church of England, along with grittier stuff. Samuel West's production did it handsome justice..."

A tweet from Sam about Equity's Manifesto for Theatre:

"I'm going on The World At One on R4 today (about 1.20pm) to talk about Equity's concern over regional theatres: more funding = fewer jobs."

The (unfortunately short) discussion will be available on iPlayer until this Friday.

Samuel West - Film - Notting Hill

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Rosamund Pike. Dan Stevens - Television - The Turn of the Screw. Theatre - Enron. Theatre - Enron - Broadhurst.

• Rosamund attended the British Fashion Awards:
  Vogue/Rex Features [link]
  Elle [link]
  Wireimage [link]
  Popsugar/Getty [link]
  Rex Features [link]
  Getty 1|2|3
• The Turn of the Screw
  
• Will be broadcast on BBC1, 30 December [link]
• BBC1 preview (via the Richard Armitage Board) [link]
• Screencaps from the preview:
  
• Enron
• Article about the Broadway transfer [link]
• Excerpt from an interview with Alison Balsom:
  
  

  "...I saw Enron – a play about the infamous financial scandal directed by Rupert Goold – at the Royal Court Theatre. I am delighted it's coming to the West End. It is a totally masterful and original modern-age topic to bring to the theatre. Sam West is incredible as usual in the main role, and it has the really powerful effect of staying in your mind well after the evening is finished..."

Ruth Wilson, Hayley Atwell, Emma Thompson. British Independent Film Awards. Radio - The Custom of the Country.

[updated 11 December]

• Excerpt from a Ruth interview about her film project with Hayley and Emma:

  "...Wilson has got together a stellar team of women writers, directors and actresses and the idea, cooked up with fellow actress Hayley Atwell, is to produce a feature film made up of shorts by and for women. 'Seven writers and seven directors, all women,' she says, reeling off names. 'Some of the women who are keen to direct are Rachel Weisz, Gillian Anderson, Tara Fitzgerald. Emma Thompson is going to mentor the writers and Susanna White, who directed Jane Eyre, will work with the directors...'"

• The British Independent Film Awards
  
• Links about Rosamund Pike's outfit and makeup 1|2|3
• elizabethtoni's arrival's videos (featuring Hayley Atwell, Gemma Arterton; Jason Isaacs, Carey Mulligan, Armando Iannucci; Peter Capaldi, David Morrissey; and Rosamund Pike) 1|2|3|4
• Some videos from t5m jason isaacs|rosamund pike
• Article from the Independent [link]
  
• Dan Stevens and Tom Hollander star in The Custom of the Country, which will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 3 January [link]

British Independent Film Awards winners. Film - An Education. Film - In the Loop. Theatre - Darker Shores. BBC Radio.

[updated 9 December]

• The British Independent Film Awards
• Winners include Armando Iannucci et al for Best Screenplay (In the Loop) and Carey Mulligan for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film (An Education). The full list of winners is here.
• Pictures - guests included Peter Capaldi, Carey Mulligan, Gemma Arterton, Andrew Buchan, David Morrissey, Armando Iannucci, Rosamund Pike, Hayley Atwell and Jason Isaacs 1|2|3|4|5
  
• Tom Goodman-Hill has replaced Mark Gatiss in Darker Shores at the Hampstead Theatre. The play also stars Julian Rhind-Tutt, Vinette Robinson and Pamela Miles [link]
• BBC Radio
• Jason Isaacs narrates "Exchange Rates" by Lionel Shriver [link]
  
• Bill Nighy stars in The Entertainer [link]
• Romola Garai and Tim McMullan are the readers for Words and Music "Hope and Despair" [link]
• Katherine Parkinson, Ciaran McMenamin and Jemma Redgrave narrate the Afternoon Reading Defining Moments [link]
• Nicholas Le Prevost, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Peter Serafinowicz star in In the Red [link]

Dan Stevens. Audio - Wolf Hall. Audio - War Horse.

• From the Independent:
  

  "...Wolf Hall is Hilary Mantel's brilliant account of the years when Henry VIII was busily getting shot of his first wife to marry Anne Boleyn. This tense, dangerous novel thrusts the wily Thomas Cromwell on to centre stage as an unlikely hero. Dan Stevens reads with low urgency, his chameleon voice adding a subtle touch of Geordie to the Percys; of Somerset to the Seymours; of pettish flounciness to the doomed Anne. It is a tour de force..."

• Dan has narrated an abridged version of War Horse by Michael Morpurgo. It is available for preorder, and will be released in the UK 7 January 2010. [link]

Television - Small Island. Women in Film and Television Awards. Hayley Atwell - Theatre - A View From the Bridge. Theatre - Arcadia.

• Articles about Small Island telegraph|independent
• Guests at the Women in Film and Television Awards included Romola Garai, Hayley Atwell and Toby Stephens [link]
• Nominees for the whatsonstage.com Awards include Hayley Atwell for Best Supporting Actress in a Play (A View From the Bridge) and the cast of Arcadia for The Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Award for Best Ensemble Performance [link]

Theatre - Enron

• Enron's whatsonstage.com award nominations are:
  The Capital Breaks Best Actor in a Play - Samuel West
  Best Supporting Actress in a Play - Amanda Drew
  The Nick Hern Books Best New Play - Lucy Prebble
  Best Director - Rupert Goold
  The White Light Best Lighting Designer - Mark Henderson
  
  
• Lucy Prebble interview from wmagazine.com [link]

Entertainment news

• Noel Clarke and Jason Isaacs will be on the Orange Rising Star jury [link]
• St Trinians 2 trailer [link]
  
• Clive Owen, Dennis Hopper, Matt Damon, Rupert Penry-Jones, Lucy Cohu & Anna Maxwell-Martin interviews clive|dennis|matt|rupert|lucy & anna
• Article about A Single Man [link]
• Ben Whishaw won an International Emmy for Criminal Justice [link]
  
• Rehearsal pictures from The Misanthrope [link]
• Werner Herzog will be president of the International jury for the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival [link]
  
• Lone Scherfig interview about An Education [link]
• There will be a fourth series of Torchwood (via The Medium is Not Enough) [link]
• Glorious 39
• Stephen Poliakoff interview [link]
• Romola Garai interviews 1|2

Ruth Wilson - Television - Small Island. Theatre - Chekhov celebration. Theatre - Guardian article.

[updated 3 December]

• Ruth interview from TV Choice [link]
• Simon Russell Beale and Rosamund Pike will take part in the Chekhov celebration at the Hampstead Theatre (via officiallondontheatre) [link]
• A Guardian article about theatre this year includes quotes from Sam West, Rupert Goold, Amanda Drew, Simon Russell Beale, Lucy Prebble, Rory Kinnear and Hayley Atwell. Simon Russell Beale, Lucy Prebble, and Hayley Atwell are also featured in a related video article|video

Samuel West - Equity - Manifesto for Theatre

The text of Sam's speech from last week's Manifesto for Theatre rally is available for download at equity.org.uk.