... career was foundering at the time she met the man she was to marry twice. It is the brainchild of Judith Paris, a skilled actress and singer who wrote the script and persuaded Ken Russell, no less, to direct it. Paris has obviously seen it as a vehicle ...

... worked so brilliantly on radio, thanks to Kathryn Hunter's wonderful performance it is even better in the theatre. She is an actress of striking physical ity, whose every move ment, gesture and pattern of speech tells us everything about the child's struggle ...

... gripe in what is two hours of unashamed and unpretentious enjoyment. In Amanda Beveridge, Perth is lucky to have a home-based actress who has melodrama down to a fine art. She is perfectly at ease as Sheila Wendice and Greg Powrie captures the sinister side ...

... vastness. More successful as a spec tacle than as a drama, this is certainly no showcase for acting. However, the three actresses, Elizabeth Jardine, Anastasia Revi and Mary Cunningham, who play Theophano in different phases of her life, do show us how ...

... presenting tabloid television show Who, What, Where or chatting on her mobile phone. He commences an affair with young, aspiring actress Cassie (Daisy Beaumont), an action that affects the lives of everyone around him. It does not work out, and makes Alex realise ...

... Gone to LA Hampstead Theatre Hampstead kicks off its third A4E new writing season with actress Lolly Susi's play, a brave but difficult documentary based on her experience of surviving breast cancer. Here, Ella--a theatre director is so appalled to discover ...

... own language, although the four actors involved turn in commendable performances. Kate Dickie nominated for The Stage Best Actress Award at the 1999 Edinburgh Festival is excellent in the role of Josephine, a fragile obsessive-compulsive. Dickie approaches ...

... has set the play firmly in a pagan medieval world, with interpolated sequences of ritual and extensive doubling by the actresses playing the witches to convey an atmosphere of demonic ubiquity. As his own star, Pinto has a strong sense of character and ...

... Freelancers Man in the Moon Who better to write a play about the backstage life of actresses than a Dair of actresses? Annelie Whitfield and Shelley Longworth not only write but also co-star, along with Elizabeth Conboy, in this comic peep into the dressing ...

... totally in thrall to Wayne, both having absorbed their fundamen talist philosophy from the media. Lithe Caroline Head as model/actress/whatever Brooke, whose strip results in an expectant silence, looks and sounds like a younger Sharon Stone. Georgina Sutton ...

... she is a rising talent, precisely conveying Miss Julie's mixture of ice and fire, and Maxine Peake is another fine young actress in the minor but interesting role of Kristin, who progresses from free spirit to buttoned-up puritan over the course of the ...

... dialogue make the tale tedious and confusing. Many of the jokes rely on using quaint euphemisms or stereotypes like a vain actress or a drunken guard. In this particular performance, they were consequently ignored by the audience. Despite the piece's colour ...