Sionhan Redmond and Phyllis Logan: Sylvia Plath's 'Ariel'

 

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. 

RSAMD launches 60th anniversary poster campaign featuring famous graduates

Ahead of its rebrand to Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in September, the Royal Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) has rolled out a poster campaign to highlight its 60th Anniversary.

The campaign, devised by the in-house marketing team, is made up of 30 posters, features well known and recent graduates from the Glasgow based academy including actors Alan Cumming, James Fleet, Billy Boyd and David Hayman alongside artistic director Paul Tyers, and actress Hannah Gordon, as well as some current students.

RSAMD will change its name on 1 September, which is highlighted within the campaign which aims to celebrate the success of some of its former students.

Each graduate features in their own poster alongside text that alludes to their success.

Photography was by K.K.Dundas, and around 60 portraits will be shown as part of an exhibition in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

Source, and full article: The Drum

"The RSAMD’s School of Drama has produced hugely successful actors such as David Tennant, James McAvoy, Daniela Nardini, Maureen Beattie, Colin Morgan, Phyllis Logan, Bill Paterson, Elaine C Smith, Alan Cumming, David Hayman, Ruby Wax, Robert Carlyle, Emma Fielding, John Hannah, Greg Wise ... the list is long and glittering."

Source, and more information: RSAMD