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Celia Imrie: 'I'm at the stage in life where I take on any challenge I can'

Edit Belfast Telegraph 03 Mar 2016
The 63-year-old film, theatre and TV star on her career as a novelist, and the lure of the south of France. Q. What are you doing over in LA? Share Go To. A. I'm on a slight hiatus. It's very exciting to be here around Grammy time ... I'm terribly over-excited ... Q ... Is it based on anywhere in particular?. A ... Q ... Born in Guildford, she divides her time between London and Cowes on the Isle of Wight and has a son, Angus, with the actor Benjamin Whitrow....

Flowering Cherry

Edit Skiddle 13 Dec 2015
Benjamin Whitrow directs Robert Bolt's drama about a man who dreams of owning an orchard, only to see his fantasies spin heartbreakingly out of control ... ....

Flowering Cherry review – a good play overshadowed by a great one

Edit The Guardian 23 Nov 2015
3 / 5 stars. Finborough, London. Robert Bolt’s 1957 play highlights the domestic tensions of a man at loggerheads with his family – and the echoes of Death of a Salesman are deafening. @billicritic ... But, while it is directed with loving care by Benjamin Whitrow and outstandingly designed by Alex Marker, it remains a good play overshadowed by a great one ... The domestic tension comes across strongly in this production ... Box office ... ....

Two decades later, Pride and Prejudice still shines

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 01 Oct 2015
It was the production that propelled period drama back into fashion with a passion ... And the leads are ably supported by a vibrant cast that features Benjamin Whitrow as the sensible, kind and long-suffering Mr Bennet, Alison Steadman as his shrill, status-grasping wife, Susannah Harker as their eldest daughter, Jane, and Crispin Bonham-Carter as Darcy's amiable pal, Bingley ... Advertisement ... WHAT. Pride and Prejudice. WHEN ... ....

The School for Scandal review – tittle-tattle a la mode

Edit The Guardian 19 Apr 2015
3 / 5 stars. Tobacco Factory, Bristol. Sheridan’s classic is given a modern twist in Andrew Hilton’s pitch-perfect production. Byron Mondahl, Fiona Sheehan and Benjamin Whitrow in The School for Scandal. Photograph. Craig Fuller. Susannah Clapp. Sunday 19 April 2015 08.00 BST. Few artistic directors have so steady a purpose as Andrew Hilton ... No clutter, no stars. Now he takes on Sherdian’s The School for Scandal ... More reviews Topics ... comments ... ....

Celia Imrie: Jack Nicholson is my dream man

Edit Belfast Telegraph 15 Mar 2015
Celia Imrie is "thrilled" when she's whistled at. The 62-year-old actress has son Angus with fellow thespian actor Benjamin Whitrow, but the pair never tied the knot. She thinks marriage is a "difficult promise to make" and while she feels very lucky to have had a child, she has yet to be swayed to say 'I do'. But if she could spend one night with a man of her choice, Celia has no doubts about who the lucky male would be ... And really ... new....

Carthage, Blink, Vault Festival: what to see at the theatre this week

Edit The Guardian 25 Jan 2014
Carthage . Blink . Vault Festival . The Table . Twelfth Night . A Midsummer Night's Dream & The Comedy Of Errors. Carthage, London. It's a busy and fruitful time for the Finborough Theatre, which sees its sell-out production of RC Sheriff's supernatural 1951-set drama The White Carnation transfer to the Jermyn Street Theatre, SW1 (4 to 22 Feb); Michael Praed and Benjamin Whitrow star ... Discuss. Finborough Theatre, SW1, Tue to 22 Feb ... LG. ....

The White Carnation – review

Edit The Guardian 29 Nov 2013
Finborough, London. There are strong performances in this entertaining revival of RC Sherriff's ghost story, but much of the play feels like padding. 3 ... Photograph ... There is a peach of a performance from Benjamin Whitrow as a dithery vicar whose first instinct, on meeting a ghost, is to ask if he is Church of England, and good support from Josie Kidd as an intrusive neighbour and Philip York as a pedantic civil servant ... ....
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