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Tales From The Dressing Room: Penelope Keith

JBR — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:25:12 +0000

“Come in, come in. Welcome to the most elegant dressing room in the West End.” How could it not be? This is, after all, the famed Dressing Room No. 10 at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. Current resident, the ever fragrant Penelope Keith, is precisely as one imagines her to be; part hectoring schoolmarm, part favourite aunt.

“I like Read more ...

Interview: The Love Bites plays

JBR — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 10:31:05 +0000

Since it began three years ago, Love Bites has produced over twenty new one-act plays by up and coming writers. This years offering takes place at Waterloo East Theatre and features five new, short plays all set at the same cocktail party. In a tribute to the Love Bites format Fourthwall caught up with two of this years wr Read more ...

Interview: Playwright Ella Hickson

PKM — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:59:28 +0000

Ella you’ve had a pretty meteoric rise since 2008 as a young artist. What was your route into this business we call show?

My university theatre runs a free fringe slot, you just have to come up with an idea and put it forward. Luckily my idea of eight monologues got selected and so I had to write the Read more ...

Interview: Leslie Jordan on shame, fame & never being tame

PKM — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:20:37 +0000

If you aren’t aware of the name Leslie Jordan by now – one has to pose the question – where have you been hiding?

He may be just 4 foot 11, but wherever this pintsized power house skips, boy does he make himself heard.

A true comedy star of American television and stage, Jordan eventually made his name in th Read more ...

Interview: Felicity Jackson on Surviving Actors 2011

PKM — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:41:29 +0000

Surviving Actors launched a year ago and quickly got the industry talking.

Founder Felicity Jackson had a vision to help struggling actors and performers in their quest to sustain a career in what has always been a notoriously difficult profession.

Jackson, a trained actor herself, knew that performers are faced with the constant t Read more ...

Exclusive Interview: Antonia Thomas E4’s Misfits

PKM — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:46:14 +0000

Rising star Antonia Thomas has never taken her eyes off the prize. Having trained with the National Youth Theatre and National Youth Music Theatre as a teenager, she soon gained deserved recognition and enrolled at Bristol Old Vic as one of the lucky twenty that year. Fresh from filming the second series of BAFTA Aw Read more ...

Introducing… Neerja Naik

PKM — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:56:45 +0000

Neerja studied economics at Cambridge University and after graduating worked as a banker in The City. An unquenched desire to act proved too strong however, as Neerja choose to trade in her career by going back to study, this time screen acting at Drama Centre London. Within two years she has successfully established herself as the new young ing Read more ...

Interview: Paul Spicer

PKM — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:48:07 +0000

How's Avenue Q going at the Wyndham's?

I love it, it's wicked. I think the show needs an intimate venue. The building's got a lot of excitement in it as well. They woop and cheer for us at the beginning of the show and it's packed. It's obviously a great f Read more ...

Interview: Martin Harvey – Dirty Dancing

PKM — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:37:02 +0000

You made your stage debut aged 6 at the Aldwych in Peter Pan. How was it playing Michael at such a young age?
Like a big adventure, I got to fly around the stage

Leap ahead 24 years and you're back performing on the same stage as Read more ...

Interview: Hannah Vassallo – Dirty Dancing

PKM — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:47:56 +0000

You hail from a family of creative types. Was it par for the course you being a performer?
My whole family is definitely very creative and we all work in artistic fields. It wasn't always the case that I would perform on stage as I had a lot of interests when I was growing up which Read more ...