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The reinvention of Mark Rylance

14.10.09

Following his mighty performance in Jerusalem, Mark Rylance tries playing Beckett in the West End.... more

Do West End playhouses need to employ bouncers?

04.08.09

The standard of London theatregoers� behaviour is apparently deteriorating. Kieron Quirke investigates.... more

Musicians dance to the Nazis� tune in Taking Sides

28.05.09

Michael Pennington shines in Taking Sides and Collaboration - sophisticated dramas from Ronald Harwood.... more

We clapped the captain on his way in. 'Cut that out,' barked Pinter, 'it's meaningless'

27.05.09

Fellow playwright Ronald Harwood recalls a friendship forged through a shared love of sport... more

Time to face the Nazi music

22.04.09

Two plays by Ronald Harwood re-examine the moral responsibility of the musicians who danced to Hitler�s tune... more

Strauss and stress in collaboration

30.07.08

It's a topic so ripe with dramatic weight that it's no wonder Ronald Harwood has returned to the theme of collaboration with the Nazis in Collaboration.... more

Lost in the time of cholera

20.03.08

Love in the Time of Cholera looks fabulous but a perfunctory adaptation misses the magic of Gabriel Garc�a Marquez's epic love story.... more

Very English tale of treason, very underwhelming

19.02.08

Director Ronald Harwood gave more vibrancy to the characters in his Bafta-winning film than he does those in An English Tragedy.... more

Redeemed in the blink of an eye

07.02.08

Director Julian Schnabel makes an unlikely hero out of an editor whose life is shattered by a stroke in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.... more

A case of life and death

04.02.08

Artist and director Julian Schnabel tells Tom Dawson how a magazine editor's stroke led him to make his Oscar-nominated movie, The Diving Bell And The Butterfly.... more

Will it be Daniel's day as Brits lead Oscars line-up

22.01.08

British stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Julie Christie move closer to Oscars glory after confirming predictions they would make the nominations list.... more

Why the Brits are lining up to storm Oscar night

17.01.08

Hollywood's showcase may be threatened by the writers' strike but that won't stop British talents bound for glory.... more

Free-ranging mind of a paralysed man

24.05.07

Festival juries usually give prizes to worthy subject matter rather than style. But French film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly has both. A shoo-in for a prize of some sort.... more

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