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Stage school - Elena Roger
After proving her star quality in Evita, Elena Roger went on to play an Italian air stewardess and now a French singer. It’s given her the education she never had, she tells Mark Shenton
Chit chat - Sick note
Tabard has this week stumbled over one of the most bizarre pieces of research we have ever had the dubious pleasure of perusing.
Radio review - Drama
Like leaves on the line or finding a missing item the minute you buy another, blind faith is one of those intractable mysteries immune to reason or analysis. It’s also pretty difficult to portray except by contrast to its polar opposite. When the setting for these gradations of unbelief is the Vatican City, as in Roger Crane’s The Last Confession, adapted by Martin Jenkins, things become interesting.
TV review
Once you have got over the shock of realising that the late nineties are now considered fertile ground for nostalgia, there is a great deal to enjoy about the new BBC sitcom Beautiful People.
Chit chat - Battle for West End
Sir Ian McKellen, meanwhile, has - Tabard hears - taken time out of his own busy schedule to lend a hand in Equity’s negotiations for an improved deal in the West End.
Radio - Light programme
In the new wave cinema of the sixties, Lindsay Anderson was the proverbial rebel without a cause. His film trilogy - If, O Lucky Man and Britannia Hospital - made a virtue of anarchy and dissent yet nobody really understood why.
TV review
The format for Hole in the Wall comes from Japanese TV - where else? - and invites teams of celebrities to contort their bodies into the shape of a hole in an oncoming wall. If the posture assumed is correct the wall passes harmlessly around them, they score points and earn money for charity. If they fail, they are shunted into a swimming pool.
Chit Chat - He stoops to conquer
The phrase “shameless publicity stunt” popped into Tabard’s head this week, upon reading the news that Andrew Lloyd Webber is planning to offer free theatre tickets to bankers who have just lost their jobs in the current financial meltdown.
Radio review - drama
You clearly get a better class of joke on painting holidays on the Greek islands than, say, a Costa package with poolside games and cheeky cabaret.
Wordplay’s the thing
Shakespeare’s words can be interpreted in many ways, especially when they exist in several versions. Jonathan Bate examines how various readings of the text can result in a radically different production and why that may be one of the reasons for the Bard’s enduring appeal
Radio review - Light programme
Entertainment without electronic media is unimaginable nowadays, given that in most households it is possible to access radio, television, music and internet when and where it suits.
TV review
The Dark Side of Fame with Piers Morgan purports to explore the downside of celebrity through in-depth interviews with the stars, starting with former Playboy centrefold, Baywatch babe and tabloid favourite Pamela Anderson.
Chit chat - What the Dickens?
Whether Bogarde was a fan of the late Ken Campbell is anyone’s guess but he would no doubt have approved of Campbell’s anarchic antics off-stage.
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Backstage
- Lighting the torch
- Lighting designer Durham Marenghi specified individual i-Pix BB4 LED cells to…
- Boys on film
- XL Video is supplying MiTrix and SoftLED video surfaces, cameras, control and…
- Fat sounds
- HSL supplied all lighting equipment and crew to Loudsound Productions for…
- Rock out
- ADLIB Audio recently supplied full audio production for the Ibiza Rocks 2008…
- Green panels
- Auralex Acoustics is to introduce EcoTech, the company’s first ‘green’…
Obituaries
- Bernadette Greevy
- Bernadette Greevy, the Irish mezzo-soprano and founder of the Anna Livia…
- David Jones
- David Jones’ distinguished career as a director included a long association…
- James Ashworth
- It is with deep sadness and regret that the Royal Centre Nottingham has to…
- William Fox
- West End character actor William Fox was renowned for playing aristocratic…
- Robert Randell
- TV writer and producer Robert Randell worked on a variety of light…
Letters
- Embarking on entertainment
- Reading the review of You Lucky People by Patrick Newley (page 18, September…
- iPlayer pay
- The Stage Online mum who enquires how much artists get paid when their…
- Talent drain
- I read the letter from Bryn Hughes headlined American Dream (
- Showing support
- As a regular weekly subscriber to The Stage, I am really disappointed of late…
- Printing plates
- We at Samuel French Ltd were surprised and excited to see an illustration…
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