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A drag queen's heels and a miner's boots: show lets you walk a mile in their shoes

Edit The Guardian 06 Jun 2016
In the latest part of her ‘empathy museum’, Clare Patey invites audiences to put on a stranger’s footwear and take a walk while listening to the shoe-owner’s personal story on headphones. @lyngardner. People often have a deep attachment to their shoes – much deeper than to any item of clothing ... For some actors, such as Beryl Reid, building a character is a process that begins with the shoes ... Twitter ... As Patey says ... Twitter ... Twitter ... ....

'The Irish RM: The Complete Collection' DVD Review

Edit The Examiner 18 Feb 2016
Major Sinclair Yates (Peter Bowles) is a retired English Army Officer. He heads to West Ireland to serve as Resident Magistrate in the time before independence. In other words, the Irish of the area didn't really care for the Englishman. Yates doesn't live in the best place but he calls it home ... Actors Beryl Reid, Bryan Murray, Anna Manahan, Niall Toibin, Jonathan Ryan and Fintan McKeown round out a hilarious cast ... ....

Watch actors playing actors acting

Edit The Independent 07 Jan 2016
There’s something endlessly fascinating about plays within plays and films within films, and seeing actors try and authentically give an inauthentic performance as their character’s character - often an intentionally bad one ... When you think of how complicated the registers at play here are, it’s astonishing anyone tried to pull it off.” ... Seinfeld (if that makes sense).” ... The Girl. Julia Roberts. Notting Hill ... Beryl Reid and Susannah York....

Cult heroes: Jake Thackray was the great chansonnier who happened to be English

Edit IMDb 15 Sep 2015
Residencies on Beryl Reid Says Good Evening, The David Frost Show, On the Braden Beat and That’s Life made Thackray a household name for a time ... - Jeremy Allen. ....

Rory Kinnear: my life in five shows

Edit The Guardian 19 Jun 2015
From playing Cyrano at school and Hamlet at the National, the star of the Young Vic’s The Trial talks about the productions that shaped his career. Rory Kinnear in Hamlet at the National Theatre in 2010. Photograph. Tristram Kenton for the Guardian. Interview by Catherine Love ... Pravda ... Photograph ... Around the same time there was a production of The Clandestine Marriage that my father [Roy Kinnear] was in with Anthony Quayle and Beryl Reid ... ....

Postcards from Orton, pointers from Pinter: Kenneth Cranham looks back

Edit The Guardian 12 May 2015
In Loot he made castanets from Orton’s dead mum’s teeth. For The Homecoming Pinter cast him as a liar and a butcher. As he dons pyjamas for The Father, the veteran actor considers half a century in theatre ... He was just beginning’ … Kenneth Cranham ... posh ... One shows images from a mid-1970s revival of Entertaining Mr Sloane, in which Beryl Reid and Harry H Corbett competed for the sexual favours of Cranham (as the amoral young stud Sloane) ... ....

Bowls: Little goals go a long way

Edit Otago Daily Times 14 Apr 2015
The rise . . Queenstown's Margaret O'Connor has emerged as one of the best bowlers in Otago after top performances in the past two years. O'Connor has proved herself on the national stage by winning the New Zealand Open in Auckland twice ... ''It was a shock the first time ... . ... The title was won by the younger Ranfurly team of Linda Vercoe, Dolina Keenan and Maureen Kennett when they beat Patearoa's Donella Hore, Beryl Reid and Rae Paterson....

Eileen Atkins on The Killing of Sister George, the flop that struck gold

Edit The Guardian 29 Dec 2014
Fifty years after she toured the UK in Frank Marcus’s play, we asked Eileen Atkins to share her memories of disaster and triumph with co-star Beryl Reid ... ‘Beryl reid remained terrified of me for the first few weeks’ Photograph ... “You’ve got Beryl Reid in the butch dominant part and she’s tiny ... “I’m a method actress, Miss Reid, so I’ll be moving in with you.” Beryl didn’t laugh - not until she was told I was joking....

New Year's Eve television: Should old debacles be forgot...

Edit The Independent 28 Dec 2014
Top 10 most complained about TV programmes in 2014 ... Andy Stewart ... But they’ve never been as dynamic as Scottish Television’s 1978 Out With the Old, In With the New, hosted by none other than Ian Ogilvy, Simon Templar Mk.2 himself, who introduces the audience to "some wonderful Scottish girls"– Annie Ross, Lulu, Aimi MacDonald, Molly Weir and Beryl Reid – and random bouts of disco dancing ... Arts + Ents News in Pictures. ....

Millionaire pets!

Edit The Times of India 18 Dec 2014
They've always been privy to a taste of the luxe world, but now they just might rule it too! Say hello to the present generation of dogs and other pets that are getting as rich as human beings through wills and bequests, enjoying jet-setting trips and glitzy birthdays and weddings too ... Back home, Indians are going gaga over their pets too. Will of power ... Poncy parties ... I In 1996, actress Beryl Reid left her £1-million home to her cats ... ....

Exodus director Ridley Scott on brotherhood and the Bible

Edit Canberra Times 02 Dec 2014
More on Exodus. Gods and Kings Movie session times Full movies coverage. There can be little doubt that Ridley Scott was destined to be a filmmaker ... "I learned by instruction book ... He ended up at the British Broadcasting Corporation, during one of its most creatively dynamic eras, working as a production designer on programs such as More Faces of Jim, which starred June Whitfield, and Bold as Brass, starring Beryl Reid ... Exodus ... ....

Marian Seldes obituary

Edit The Guardian 14 Oct 2014
Renowned Broadway star associated with the work of Edward Albee ... Photograph. Brian Ach/WireImage ... This was her watershed moment ... Her other Albee appearances were in the off-Broadway premieres of Three Tall Women (1994), The Play About the Baby (2001) and Counting the Ways (2003); in the last of these she took a role first played in London (at the National Theatre in 1976) by Beryl Reid and then by Lansbury in Hartford, Connecticut ... ....

Marcus's 'Killing of Sister George,' McPherson's 'Port Authority'

Edit Huffington Post 07 Oct 2014
Context is everything ... It's the only explanation I could find for the production's seeming merely bizarre now since it had been so effective when it first played in London and then was transferred to Broadway in 1966 with original cast members, including Beryl Reid and Eileen Atkins ... Mercy Croft (Cynthia Harris), was groundbreaking, shocking ... Marcus focuses on the couple over a few late September and early October weeks ... Ms ... Harris's Mrs....
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