actors
Matt Wolf
Lesley Sharp could be thought of as an actor's actor: a talent equally at home in theatre, cinema and TV who has been impressing audiences and critics regularly for a quarter-century without quite becoming a star name. That looks set to change in theatre terms at least with Sharp's breakout West End double - first as the blowsy, ferocious Mari in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, the Jim Cartwright play currently in revival until 30 January 2010 at the Vaudeville Theatre, followed by Mrs Alving in Ibsen's Ghosts early next year at the Duchess, in a production to be directed by Sharp's Pastor Read more ...
Graham Fuller
“You’ve no idea how boring everything was before I met you.” As written by Nick Hornby and spoken by Carey Mulligan in An Education, these words of gratitude come after a moment of stillness in which Jenny, Mulligan’s character, reflects on her experience as a 16-year-old schoolgirl taken on a social joyride by a 35-ish hustler, David (Peter Sarsgaard). It’s Twickenham in the early Sixties, the age of austerity's not yet over, and they’re sitting in his Bristol outside her house at night. She tells him she sometimes thinks he’s the only person who’s done anything in “this whole stupid Read more ...