Stars to recite Sylvia Plath’s Ariel as she intended
Stars including Juliet Stevenson, Harriet Walter and Miranda
Richardson are to read aloud Sylvia Plath’s entire Ariel collection of
poems as she arranged them.
As part of the London Literature Festival, 40 actresses and poets,
including Phyllis Logan, Samantha Bond, Anna Chancellor and Siobhan
Redmond will each read a single work from the restored edition of the
manuscript found on Plath’s desk after her suicide at the age of 30 in
February 1963. Plath predicted that the collection would “make my name”.
The
Royal Festival Hall performance on May 26 will be introduced by Plath’s
daughter, Frieda Hughes, 53, who wrote a foreword to the restored
version.
Read more at London Evening Standard
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Doctor Faustus
Glasgow South & Eastwood Extra's review of Siobhan Redmond's Doctor Faustus is here.
Siobhan Redmond reveals the Faustian pact that saw her delay getting her MBE from the Queen in order to star on stage
Scots star prepares to head home for a Citizens production of Doctor Faustus – once she finally collects her gong from Buckingham Palace.
Siobhan is excited to be on Citizens stage
Actress Siobhan Redmond has told how her trip to Buck House has been postponed because she’s having a devil of a time on stage.
Starring
in Doctor Faustus forced the actress to delay her royal appointment to
get her MBE – awarded in the New Year’s Honours list.
It is
somehow fitting. The last time Christopher Marlowe’s 16th century
classic played at Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre, in 1965, it caused a
headline-grabbing rumpus over its depiction of the Queen.
Siobhan,
53, said: “I have not actually been to the Palace yet because the
scheduled date was the morning after the press night of Doctor Faustus
in Leeds and I knew I wouldn’t be able to do that. I have been pencilled
in for May.
“Fortunately, they have been very helpful and
accommodating. I think they realise the rogues and vagabonds who work
freelance may not be able to come on the first date so they gave me a
choice of subsequent dates.
“I was talking to my sister about this
as we went through, yet again, what on earth we are going to wear, hats
not featuring largely in her wardrobe and formal wear not featuring
largely in mine.
“The thought that somebody other than myself
might have enjoyed my work is completely delightful. I am not going to
pretend to be cool about it.
"I am genuinely touched but, of course, it doesn’t make any difference as to whether or not I am ever likely to work again.”
But worrying where her next job will come from is not an immediate concern.
In
the first place, there is her imminent return to her home town of
Glasgow with the Citizens production of Doctor Faustus. And later this
year, she will be reprising the role of Lady Macbeth in the National
Theatre of Scotland’s production of Dunsinane, David Greig’s acclaimed
sequel to Shakespeare’s Scottish play.
She is particularly
excited about bringing Christopher Marlowe’s mythic tale about the
dangers of making bargains with the Devil to the Citz. Partly because
she is playing the role of Mephistopheles, which is highly unusual for
an actress, but also because it has finally brought her into the fold at
the Citizens Theatre.
Read more at Daily Record
Doctors
Series 14 - 213. Tea for Three
From Radio Times:
Siobhan Redmond guest-stars as a slightly scatty woman who gets stuck
in the hospital lift with Jimmi. After Carrie’s young son — also called
Jimmi — died during an operation, she marks the precise anniversary
with a picnic at the hospital. But while she’s used rituals and signs to
help her cope with the grief, she says her husband, a once calm and
quiet cellist, became a live-for-today “wild child”. But her colleague
Reggie (Adrian Hood) later reveals something about her that alarms
Jimmi.
Meanwhile, Emma presents her version of Sam’s last
moments to the police but her colleagues at the Mill — and specifically
Howard — doubt her story.
About this programme
213/221. Jimmi becomes trapped in a lift with a woman who has relied
on a strong belief in fate to cope with the death of her son, but which
has also prevented her moving on from her grief. Meanwhile, Emma relays
her version of Sam's final moments to colleagues and DI Collier, while
Daniel tries to win back Zara.
