Samuel West at home in London. Photograph: Mark Harrison/Camera Press
The actor on his pandemic poetry jukebox, life lessons of the Moomins, the pros and cons of Twitter, and how to reboot regional theatre
Sun 7 Mar 2021 04.30 EST
Samuel West, 54, one of the best verse speakers of his generation, has played Hamlet, Anthony Blunt (twice) and recently become Siegfried Farnon in Channel 5’s
All Creatures Great and Small; he is currently working on the second series. The son of Prunella Scales and Timothy West, he lives with his partner, the playwright Laura Wade, and their two daughters, aged six and three. West’s production of Wade’s
A Stay Sane, Feel Connected sign along the New River Walk.
- Credit: Stay Sane, Feel Connected
A group of friends has installed an interactive art project along an Islington waterway to connect people with their environment and with each other without breaking social distancing rules.
Five people took about 48 hours over the weekend of February 19 to position ten small upcycled-wooden signs along New River Walk displaying questions, challenges and small illustrations designed to invoke deeper thoughts in pedestrians strolling along the waterway
They include musings such as How would you greet this tree? and Can you spot a pigeon? .
Just wondered if there is a case for a bit of a historic land grab?
The land in question is alongside the New River, west of Wightman road and south of Hornsey…