Posts Tagged ‘Finty Williams’
Saturday 25 April 2015
Goodness. We were there.
No, we hadn’t expected to be either.
Phil won tickets for an “unprecedented experiment and a major innovation in theatre and television”, The Vote in (appropriately enough) a ballot.
We say “won”, he was aware he had to pay for them of course. Yet it still felt like one of those “competitions” where you think you’ve won a free holiday then find you have to pay for your flights and accommodation at absurdly inflated rates after making a long premium rate phone call. Read the rest of this entry »
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Wednesday 26 September 2012
Nearly at the end of its run so really this is just to remind ourselves in future years that we were there because it is unlikely we shall remember otherwise.
The twin-piqued interests of Volcano at the Vaudeville were that (a) it is Noel Coward‘s rediscovered, previously un-produced 1956 play and (b) Andrew has a geophys fascination with volcanoes and so it just had to be squeezed in before it lies undiscovered for few more generations. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Dawn Steele, entertainment, Finty Williams, jason Durr, Jenny Seagrove, London, Noël Coward, Perdita Avery, play, review, Robin Sebastian, Roy Marsden, theatre, Tim Daish, Volcano, west end
Monday 17 January 2011
NT: Peter Hall, you’re 80th birthday is coming up and we wondered if you had any thoughts about a gift?
PH: I’d like to give you another Twelfth Night.
NT: We-ell, it’s traditional for the birthday boy to be the recipient really. Go on. We’ve had a whip-round. What would you like?
PH: Yes, Twelfth Night I think.
NT: How about a nice foot spa?
PH: My daughter can be Viola.
NT: *Sigh*. Oh, all right then.
PH: A nice, slow version I think.
NT: Both of our big auditoriums appear to be booked up. I’m afraid it will have to be the Cottesloe.
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Tags: Amanda Drew, Anthony Ward, Charles Edwards, entertainment, Finty Williams, London, National Theatre, Peter Hall, Rebecca Hall, review, Simon Callow, Simon Paisley Day, theatre, Twelfth Night, west end, William Shakespeare
Wednesday 31 March 2010
Some showbiz names are so inextricably linked as to almost be inseparable: Burton and Taylor, Morecambe and Wise, Rogers Rodgers and Hammerstein, Jannette and Ian Krankie, Phil and Andrew. And then there’s Jenny Seagrove and Bill Kenwright.
But creatives providing gainful employment for ‘er indoors is nothing new in showbiz. Think Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter, (more ‘er next door in their case). Think Woody Allen and Mia Farrow (more ‘er across Central Park in theirs).
Having told a friend he was seeing Jenny Seagrove in Bedroom Farce Phil received a rhetorical text to enquire, “Is it a Bill Kenwright production?”. It’s a running gag. Of course it was. And why not? Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Alan Ayckbourn, Bedroom Farce, Daniel Betts, David Horovitch, Duke of York's Theatre, entertainment, Finty Williams, Jenny Seagrove, London, Orlando Seale, Peter Hall, Rachel Pickup, review, Sara Crowe, theatre, Tony Gardner, west end
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