Laura Donnelly is the muse and star of her partner Jez Butterworth’s plays. As his latest show, ‘The Hills of California’, opens in the West End with her in the lead role, the Olivier award-winning Northern Irish actor tells Jessie Thompson about what it’s really like to be one-half of British theatre’s most formidable couple
Craig Cash and other friends and collaborators look back at the phenomenal, but sadly all-too short, career of a woman who insisted comedy didn’t need jokes, only people
Shy, intelligent, prone to a drink and generous to a fault. The people closest to the star remember a comedy legend hounded by the press and wracked by depression
Sweet, funny and endlessly touching, this re-released 1994 short film about pensioner-packed salons is a tragicomic joy. A hypnotic dispatch from a lost age, it’s like Slow TV before it existed