(05-03-2010 12:50 PM)JHyde Wrote:  I hate the play but I can see him being pretty good in that particular role. How was Cattrall, as a side note?

I take it you are not a Coward fan then JHyde?? Cattrall was wonderful; she looked stunning! Her accent only slipped once and she suited the stage and had more presence than MM. There was a great moment where she was eating brioche towards the front of the stage and she was supposed to split it out as MM made her jump. Instead of just dropping to the stage, the brioche bits came out about 100 miles an hour and the front two rows of the audience got covered. Cattrall clasped her hand to her mouth and burst out laughing at the rather posh looking lady on the front row, sitting with a peice of brioche on her head!

Not a Coward fan at all, I'm afraid.

I can see her being good in that role actually too. It's interesting you raise the point of her corpsing onstage though, as when Laurence Olivier played MM's role back in the 30s just as his career was taking off, Coward used to do everything he could think of opposite him to try and test Olivier, trying to get him to break his giggling habit. It eventually worked.

OK, that's me getting off topic and showing off my dorky knowledge of completely useless theatre trivia.

Glad you enjoyed it Tea Lady. I'm looking forward to hearing reviews of Hedda Gabler when HellsBells and YFM check in after seeing it.

My little ears may deceive me but I think Miranda Raison is doing the voiceover for the new Times Newspaper advert on the TV in the UK. I dont know if anyone else has seen it and can confirm?

During the space of one TV programme yesterday that I was watching, there was this Times Advert, then there was RA doing the voiceover for the new Alfa Romeo car advert and to put the cherry on top of the cake there was that blinking Go-Cat advert with PF. I thought that had gone away! Anyway, at least I got to hear the voices of all three within an hour.

Nicola Walker is taking part in Drama On 3 – Gone on Sunday 14 March at 8.00-9.30pm on BBC RADIO 3.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginf.../sun.shtml
(Scroll to halfway down the page)

If you scroll further down the page you can see that RA is also doing a radio play, The Classic Serial – Clarissa: The History Of A Young Lady Ep 1/ 4 on Sunday 14 March at 3.00-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4.

Did anyone hear Jonathan Ross interview Matthew Macfadyen this morning ? You can catch it on the iPlayer, http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00...3_03_2010/ (Hope that works).He is was on during the last 15 minutes.

(13-03-2010 06:23 PM)HellsBells Wrote:  Did anyone hear Jonathan Ross interview Matthew Macfadyen this morning ? You can catch it on the iPlayer, http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00...3_03_2010/ (Hope that works).He is was on during the last 15 minutes.

Wonderful HellsBells, thank you. I dont particularly like JR so try and avoid him. MM has a great voice and I'm glad his play is doing so well. It really is worth going to see. Hate the fact JR says "Wobin Wood"....

Yeah I know what you mean about Jonathan Ross, but radio 2 tends to be on constantly in our house. I couldn't believe it when I heard MM, such a distinctive, wonderful voice.

David Oyelowo (Danny) won Best Actor at the RTS (Royal Television Society) awards last night for "Small Island" (BBC One.)

Article on BBC news website that David Oyelowo is to play Martin Luther King in a new film

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8572061.stm

Wow that's a big role for him!

For any Aussies hanging around, Whitechapel is about to start on Friday night on the ABC. It should be prime viewing and it got a great write-up in the NSW and Victorian press. I've noticed that Penry-Jones is very well liked by people at the Herald and The Age as most things he is in are usually written about and he is usually described as 'swoonworthy' or the like. My fave was a review of 6.6 where he was described as 'edible'.

I think it also has Stephen Boxer from 8.5 in it. But don't quote me on that.