Zoe Wanamaker
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Garrick, London
Zoë Wanamaker is in soul-baring form in Rattigan double-bill depicting the actor-manager tradition the Branagh season is designed to subvert -
The actor-director’s season of plays in London’s West End opens this weekend with The Winter’s Tale, starring Judi Dench, and Terence Rattigan’s Harlequinade, starring Zoë Wanamaker
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Letter: Cultural boycotts singling out Israel are divisive and discriminatory, and will not further peace
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Autumn/winter highlights include a celebration of Arthur Miller, a classical version of nurturing platform BBC Introducing, a Stockhausen world premiere – and Alan Bennett’s Private Passions
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Belfast hosts immersive theatre in a secret jazz cafe, there’s a world premiere from the late Michael Hastings, and Yael Farber’s Nirbhaya is at Contact in Manchester
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As she prepares to play poet Stevie Smith, Zoë Wanamaker talks to Lyn Gardner about acting through grief, finding her voice – and why she has never performed in the theatre that bears her father’s name
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Antigone | Uncle Vanya | Stevie | Solace Of The Road | King Lear | Blood Wedding
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The star of Mr Selfridge loves predictive text, uses the web to research roles, but once had a bad experience with a juicer, writes Michael Hogan
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Zoë Wanamaker: I'd acted before, but not until I got to Stratford in 1978 – a kind of conservatoire where I could learn from the best – did I become brave enough to do it well
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Like the man in her most famous poem, Not Waving but Drowning, Wanamaker's Stevie Smith is all covert signals
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From Robert Stephens and Maggie Smith to Simon Russell Beale and Zoë Wanamaker, countless duos have sparred as Benedick and Beatrice. What's your favourite version of the play?
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As Poirot comes to an end after 25 years, Zoë Wanamaker reveals why she's in love with her character, Ariadne Oliver
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Actor, who is set to appear in her sixth Poirot episode, tells Radio Times that it's difficult for women her age to get work
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A new chief rabbi, a national centre boasting appearances by some of the country's most admired cultural figures, and a BBC2 history of the Jews by Simon Schama – the Jewish community is celebrating New Year in good heart. Ned Temko surveys the huge changes of recent years
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This week's new theatre Much Ado About Nothing, 1984, The Herd: what to see at the theatre this week
Much Ado About Nothing | 1984 | The Herd | To Sir, With Love | On Golden Pond | A Lady Of Little Sense
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From Daft Punk to Jeremy Deller, Rwanda to the Champions League – we showcase the best photography commissioned by the Observer this month
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Zoe Wanamaker, who played Katherine in Taming of the Shrew in 1975, on what Shakespeare means to her
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Bruce Dessau: The BBC's decision to can the Robert Lindsay and Zoe Wanamaker sitcom after a decade has not come before time
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12.30pm: Zoe Wanamaker has provided the voiceover for a viral video ad to help publicise the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. By Mark Sweney.
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Theatre: Puppets excel at Shakespeare and Zoe Wanamaker gets busy with a broom, writes Susannah Clapp.
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The 52-year-old actress has accused the makers of the Harry Potter film of underpaying their cast and said rates will have to improve before she will agree to appear in the sequel
Elegy review – a fine dilemma