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How Peter O Toole was struck by the curse of Macbeth Inflatable sets, Brian Blessed and a literal blood bath – behind the scenes of the car-crash production that stalked the star to his grave 6 March 2021 • 3:44pm Is this a disaster I see before me? : Peter O Toole as Macbeth, 1980 Credit: Lesly HAMILTON/Gamma-Rapho The critic Sheridan Morley once described leaving the Old Vic at the end of its 1980 Macbeth and overhearing two audience members on their way out. “One of them turned to his friend and said: ‘Well all I hope now is that the dog has not been sick in the car.’ I thought that was the best review of that production I’d ever heard.” ....
Yvonne Brewster: 'I wasn't going to faff around the edges of the fringe' msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
‘Yuh tallawah – that means you’re small but you’re strong’ … Yvonne Brewster directing in 1991. Photograph: Richard Hubert Smith ‘Yuh tallawah – that means you’re small but you’re strong’ … Yvonne Brewster directing in 1991. Photograph: Richard Hubert Smith The co-founder of Talawa, Britain’s longest-running black theatre company, is a woman of many firsts, celebrated in a new book Tue 2 Mar 2021 06.01 EST Last modified on Wed 3 Mar 2021 04.58 EST “Fantastic! Because all of us lickkle, and all of us tallawah, and all of us are women,” said Jamaican actor Mona Hammond when Yvonne Brewster suggested a name for her theatre company. Hammond, who had helped found the company, wanted a Jamaican name. Brewster consulted a dictionary on the English spoken in Jamaica, reading the book backwards. “‘Zuzuwapp.’ Oh, that sounds nice. No, that’s giving too much ‘ethnicity’ to the company,” she recalls. “‘Tallawah.’ Sure – m ....
Died: January 16, 2021. CHARLOTTE Cornwell, who has died aged 71, was an actress of fearlessness and class, who combined tenures with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre with a TV career that tapped into a more contemporary grit. Beyond acting, as a political activist and champion of justice, she was, as fellow actor Ian McKellen described her in a tribute on Twitter, ‘indomitable’. She found fame in Rock Follies (1976), Howard Schuman’s Fringe theatre-styled musical drama that charted the fortunes of the girl group, The Little Ladies. She played Anna, the most strident and driven of the group, alongside Julie Covington as the punky Dee and Rula Lenska as the aristocratic Q. ....
The important Bristolians who have just been added to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Eight notable people from Bristol have been added to the illustrious list Updated Bristol has long been punching above its weight when it comes to producing people who go on to be world famous - whether it s Hollywood legends like Cary Grant and Bob Hope, scientists like Bernard Lovell or Colin Pillinger, or sports stars like WG Grace or Eddie Hapgood. But there are some notable Bristolians who, in their field, are so well-known and respected that they ve just been named in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. ....