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2000
Tony Award Winner
Best
Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
Stephen
Dillane for The Real Thing
  
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Guardian
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Thursday
March 6, 2003
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Disney
crowns Clive Owen as King Arthur
Clive
Owen, the British thespian who had a sleeper hit with The Croupier, will
play King Arthur in a Disney film of the same name. The movie could
represent a break into the big time for the Englishman, who came to
British attention in the TV series Chancer, but whose most recent film
roles have been in the art-house ensemble Gosford Park and a supporting
part in The Bourne Identity.
King
Arthur is being produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and will be directed by
Antoine Fuqua, who made Training Day. The Hollywood Reporter says that Stephen
Dillane, who played Leonard Woolf
in The Hours, is a possibility to play Arthur's right-hand man Merlin.
The
film will tell the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
from a realistic viewpoint, taking in political and social intrigues, and
will not focus as much on the magical elements of the tale. Shooting is
set to begin in spring this year. |
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TheatreNow
Friday
November 29, 2002
Goodbye
Sam Mendes!
by Paul
Webb
Sam
Mendes' reign at the Donmar Warehouse ends this week, and he leaves with a
clutch of awards - trailing clouds of glory, as ever.
Mendes' ten years at the helm of the Donmar ends, appropriately, on a high
note, with the Sydney Edwards Award for best Director, thanks to his
recent double-bill of Twelfth Night (which closes tomorrow, 30th
November) and Uncle Vanya - which has already closed.
Saturday's performance of Twelfth Night
is likely to have more stars in the audience than on stage, as Mendes has
bought every seat for personal guests of his.
Both Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya starred Simon Russell
Beale, who won Best Actor for his roles as Malvolio and Uncle Vanya.
Mendes turned the Donmar from an interesting but struggling fringe theatre
into one of the most chic and creative theatrical powerhouses in
London - an extraordinary achievement. Among his many major successes were
productions of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins and Kander and Ebb's Cabaret,
and as Artistic Director he displayed a great flair for importing some of
the best modern American playwrights, not to mention some of the starriest
names in Hollywood - including Gwyneth Paltrow and Nicole Kidman. |
Variety
Sunday
December 8, 2002
'Right'
on
Bowing out at
Donmar
by Matt
Wolf
In
not so much a trice as a T-shirt, he was gone: That was the highly
emotional scenario Nov 30 at the Donmar Warehouse following the
invitation-only final performance of Sam Mendes' production of
"Twelfth Night" that also marked the very last night -- after 10
years and one month -- of Mendes' artistic directorship of the Covent
Garden venue.
After
the cast had taken its fourth and final bow to a standing ovation from an
aud made up almost entirely of British theater people (you name a Donmar-related
actor, writer or director and he or she was there, from Tom Stoppard,
Christopher Hampton and Stephen
Dillane to Iain Glen, Claire
Skinner and Janie Dee), Mendes came out alone on stage, sporting a T-shirt
that said, "I'm off."
Joining
him before long was his No. 2, Caro Newling, who presented Mendes with his
parting gift: a painstakingly detailed boxed model (on a 1:50 scale) of
the Donmar. Visibly moved, Mendes as he left the stage revealed the back
of his T-shirt read, "I'll be back" -- which he just might. Two
days earlier, Really Useful Theater chief exec Andre Ptaszynski told an
arts correspondents lunch that plans were "at the napkin stage"
with Mendes to oversee the conversion and programming of the nearby
Cambridge Theater into a 700-seat playhouse and 200-seat cinema.
But
don't get too excited just yet. Such plans, Ptaszynski cautions, are
"at least seven to eight years away." |
Times
Tuesday
September 17, 2002
Play
it again, Sam (an
excerpt)
Sam
Mendes may be leaving the Donmar but he's resisting the lure of
Hollywood
by
Benedict Nightingale
If
Sam Mendes had enemies, they’d say that he enjoys a charmed life. By his
own testimony, a cricket-mad administration invited the callow Cambridge
graduate to Chichester as much because of his prowess as a batsman as for
his embryonic talent as a director. By his own testimony, he had no reason
to expect a positive answer in 1989 when, aged 24, he walked into the
office of the owner of a tiny, boarded-up theatre in Covent Garden, and
asked if he could resuscitate the place. But the Donmar became his, and
has remained so until now...
And
there have been terrific performances during Mendes’s tenure. He’s
fulfilled his promise to encourage fresh talent: recall Claire Skinner in
Williams’s The Glass Menagerie, Adrian Lester in Company,
and Rachel Weisz in Coward’s Design for Living? And he’s not
ignored the more established. Zoë Wanamaker’s Electra won a major
best-acting award. Stephen
Dillane did the same in Tom
Stoppard’s The Real Thing, giving what Mendes regards as “one
of the greatest performances I’ve ever seen”...
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Poems
for Refugees
Moved
by the plight of the children in Afghanistan, Pippa Hayword (Stephen's
co-star in The One Game) approached people from the worlds of art
and literature, asking them to choose a poem in response to September 11th
and the ensuing Afghan crisis. The response was overwhelming and
extraordinary. Over 100 performers, artists, writers and directors
participated, including Judi Dench, Tom Stoppard, J.K. Rowling, John
Cleese, Greta Scacchi, and Stephen Dillane.
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Theatrenow
Monday
August 12, 2002
Leading
Men : Stephen Dillane
by
Paul Webb
Stephen
Dillane is currently
starring in Sir Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia trilogy at
the National Theatre, where he plays Alexander Herzen, a Russian
intellectual who is in effect Stoppard's hero among the various
philosophers, writers and political and literary figures who make up
the vast cast of his epic trilogy about mid-nineteenth century
Europe. |
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His
previous plays at the National have been Angels in America,
A Long Day's Journey Into Night, Dancing at Lughnasa and The
Beaux' Stratagem.
Dillane
starred in another Stoppard play in 2000, a revival of The Real
Thing at the Donmar, then at the Albery and finally on Broadway.
A less successful West End venture was last year's Life After
George at the Duchess, where he played a professor at an
Australian university in a short-lived production that deserved
bigger audiences than it received.
Among
numerous other West End appearances Stephen
Dillane is probably best
known for his Hamlet, directed by Sir Peter Hall, at the Gielgud
Theatre. The theatre was renamed (it had been the Globe) in honour
of Sir John Gielgud's 90th birthday in 1994. Gielgud's most famous
role as a young man had been Hamlet, so it was appropriate that the
renaming of the theatre be marked by Sir Peter's production of that
play.
The
production attracted as much attention for the fact that Dillane
appeared, in one scene, naked on stage, as for the general quality
of the acting, direction and design.
Dillane's
trademark is a combination of sex appeal, a certain world-weariness
and intelligence, all characteristics ideally suited to a Stoppard
hero.
The
three plays (Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage)
that make up The Coast of Utopia are playing in rep at the
National Theatre. |
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Daily
Mail
Friday
April 19, 2002
Stephen
is to tread the boards again in June
by
Baz Bamigboye
Trevor
Nunn this week started rehearsing the large ensemble cast, led by Stephen
Dillane, of Tom Stoppard's trilogy
The Coast of Utopia at the National Theatre.
The
playwright told me his plays follow a group of Russian immigrants in the
19th century.
The
works are called Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage, and
the trilogy beings June 27th - although there will be occasions when all
three plays are staged in one day.
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17, 2002 - US release date for The Truth
About Charlie is October 25, 2002; press day for The
Coast of Utopia is August 3, 2002; new US release
date for The Parole Officer is
TBD; US release date for The Hours
is December 27, 2002 |
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January
6, 2002 - US release date for The Parole
Officer is May 10, 2002; tickets on sale now for
the new play Life After George |
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August
27, 2001 - The
Cazalets on PBS, Mondays, October 22 - November 19, 2001 |
The
Cazalets |
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| August
24, 2001 - Stephen has joined the cast of The
Gathering |
| July
21, 2001 - Love and Rage will air on Carlton Cinema, Wednesday,
August 1, 2001, 11:30pm BST |
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July
19, 2001 - Spy Game is
scheduled for release in the US on November 21, 2001 |
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July
11, 2001 - The Parole Officer is
scheduled for release in the UK on August 10, 2001 |
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July
2, 2001 - The Cazalets will air
on PBS Masterpiece Theatre this fall |
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June
24, 2001 - Boon will air on
Thursday, July 5, 2001, on Granada Plus, 3:00pm BST |
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June
18, 2001 - The
Cazalets, a six-part series, begins on BBC1, Friday, June
22, 2001, 9:00pm BST |
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22, 2001 - Stephen will narrate Samuel Beckett's First Love
on BBC Radio
4, February 27, 2001, 2:15-3:00pm GMT. This
was written in French in 1946 and remained unpublished for 24
years. It is a short and brutal piece, reputedly
autobiographical but savagely misogynistic and occasionally
grimly, fleetingly funny. |
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18, 2001 - Anna Karenina will be broadcast on PBS, Sunday,
February 18 and 25, 9:00pm EST. |
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17, 2001 - Stephen will perform in BBC Radio 4's serialized Bayeux
Tapestry, which will begin airing on February 19, 2001,
7:45pm GMT. |
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2, 2001 - Stephen has joined the cast of Spy Game, with Robert Redford and Brad Pitt; The
Hours is still in negotiations. |
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21, 2001 - Stephen is set to film a new movie, The Hours,
based on the Pulitzer Prize novel by Michael Cunningham. The film is directed by Stephen Daldry, who
directed Billy Elliot. |
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Welcome to
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New
York Post
Wednesday
December 27, 2000
TOP
10 REASONS TO VISIT B'WAY
by
Clive Barnes (an
excerpt)
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Betrayal
The
Dinner Party
The
Full Monty
The
Music Man
The
Real Thing |
Copenhagen
Dirty
Blonde
Jane
Eyre
Proof
True
West |
The
Hollywood Reporter
Thursday
December 28, 2000
by
Robert Osborne (an
excerpt)
...
Other great theater experiences this year: the revivals of Tom
Stoppard's "The Real Thing" and Sam Shepard's "True
West" -- the first particularly notable because of the stunning
performances of eventual Tony winners Stephen
Dillane and Jennifer Ehle
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2, 2000 - Love and Rage shown at the
2000 12th International Film Festival of Wales |
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4, 2000 - Anna Karenina is set to be aired on PBS ExxonMobil
Masterpiece Theatre in 2001. |
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September
15, 2000 - Stephen is expected to film The Parole Officer,
co-starring Lena Headey and directed by John Duigan. |
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September
3, 2000 - Stephen is set to film The Cazalet
Chronicle for the BBC. |
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Brian
Stokes Mitchell - Best
Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (Kiss Me Kate)
Heather
Headley - Best
Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical (Aida)
Jennifer Ehle
- Best
Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (The Real Thing)
Stephen
Dillane - Best
Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (The Real Thing)
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May 2000
by
Julie Kavanaugh
"The
performers I admire don't draw attention to themselves, because they're so
completely at one with the part," says
Stephen Dillane.
"They're the people who never get noticed."
Like
Dillane
himself. At least until now. When the hit revival of Tom
Stoppard's The Real Thing opens in New York at the Ethel Barrymore
Theatre on April 17, following two sellout runs in London, he'll be
"sneaking up on stardom," as one English paper put it. And
so will Jennifer Ehle (Elizabeth Bennet in TV's Pride and Prejudice
and daughter of actress Rosemary Harris). Both Dillane
and Ehle are making their Broadway debuts. The
Real Thing, about the nature of love, is Stoppard's sexiest play, and
his most accessible. And with Dillane's
charmingly rumpled, relaxed, and interior portrayal of the playwright
Henry, and Ehle's warm and intelligent Annie, the erotic voltage is at
times dangerously high. |
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The Real
Thing
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0:32
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1:05 minutes
View
a scene from The Real Thing (Act 1, Scene 2). Part 1 was
broadcast at the Drama Desk Awards on May 14, 2000. Part 2 was broadcast
on A&E's Breakfast with the Arts interview with Jennifer Ehle on June 4, 2000.
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The
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1:44 minutes
View
a scene from The Real Thing (Act 1, Scene 4), which was broadcast
on The Charlie Rose Show, May 4, 2000. Stephen
Dillane
appeared with Jennifer Ehle and discussed
The Real Thing and acting techniques, including David Mamet's True
and False.
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1:00 minutes
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a scene from The Real Thing (Act 2, Scene 5) followed by an
interview with Stephen Dillane, which was broadcast
on Broadway Beat, May 20 and 30, 2000.
Tony
Nominees Brunch at Sardi's, May 14, 2000
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New
York Daily News
Tuesday
May 30, 2000
News
and Views | Daily Dish
by Rush
& Malloy
Harvey
Weinstein has been ribbing
Tom Stoppard. Weinstein, whose Miramax is co-producing the playwright's
"The Real Thing" on Broadway, teased him: "Do you recognize
anybody onstage?" — referring to Stephen
Dillane, who wears Stoppard's
mannerisms like a sweater. Weinstein says Stoppard replied,
"No." Asked if he's mimicking his character's creator, Dillane
wisely tells us: "No. I don't even know any writers." …
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Stephen
Dillane and Jennifer Ehle
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Ordinary
Decent Criminal |
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The
Darkest Light |
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The
Independent (UK)
Sunday
March 19, 2000
Ordinary
Decent Criminal
review by
Antonia Duff
Ordinary
Decent Criminal, another film about the real-life Irish gangster
Martin Cahill (see John Boorman's The General, which came out in
1997) is inappropriately jaunty. It stars - weirdly - Kevin Spacey as the
Cahill character (renamed as Michael Lynch) and Linda Fiorentino as his
wife. Ah, the jolly, jolly life of the gangster! He's a sort of Don
Corleone meets Robin Hood. Ah, the strange, strange confusion of accents
(even the Irish actors cartoon their vowels, so much so that you cannot
afterwards think what an Irish accent actually sounds like.)
And
Spacey's skills are beginning to get grating - they're beginning to feel
more and more like a bag of tricks. He rarely really interacts, he never
brings his note down at end of his sentences and he always, always seems
to be enjoying a private joke. It doesn't help that he's pitted against Stephen
Dillane, who is probably the best actor
in Britain (although he keeps choosing duff films to be in). Dillane
is so delicate, and relaxed, and clear: he is never adrift in his
preoccupations, he never grows tired in front of us.
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