This has been an extraordinary week, post Macbeth. First order of the day, rest and recover, it was a challenging month, demanding a lot of energy, fortunately I am blessed with decent health (genes), so have staying power, but now its time to pace and prioritize events. The week was the sublime to the…
Macbeth is over now and I loved every moment of doing it. What a great part and I am happy that I was not only able to learn the lines, but was able to retain them at my time of life. Shakespeare is such an extraordinary writer, once you get the words into your head…
Second week of Macbeth in Portsmouth and I am just beginning to relax and enjoy doing playing this wicked woman who destroys herself with her own wickedness. Between trying to avoid being knocked out by the three huge revolving mirrors that take up the lions share of the stage, struggling with the worst cough and…
Here I am in beautiful Portsmouth, staying in an extraordinary Maritime Club, begun as a home for homeless sailors while on land, with much history and close to the historic port and the modern shopping centre, with its iconic spinnaker tower. You may have gathered I am rather partial to the ocean, love to…
Getting ready to play Lady M in Macbeth…the dreaded Scottish play, notorious for all sorts of bad luck…you’re not allowed to even whisper the name in the theatre…so friends wish me luck!!! I am somewhat terrified…we have a huge cauldron..(note to self….do not fall into it…it holds up to three people), we have witches,…
Getting excited, off to London on Friday …. rehearse and then play Lady MacB in the Scottish play….Macbeth.. as it’s better known. I am absolutely petrified…but exhilarated at the same time. It really is a scenery chewing role. I have been lucky enough to be able to run lines with the talented, lovely actor Aaron…
After the Magic Lantern Festival screening of THE LION IN WINTER on Sunday in Ketchum Idaho, a friend asked me how it felt to watch myself in movie, made so long ago and looking somewhat younger! I replied ” it’s interesting, but not easy”. When I appeared as Vivien Leigh in the one woman play…
Ketchum/Sun Valley looms large in my life these two weeks. Last week I did a reading of the play REUNION by terrific English writer John Caine, produced by Jon Kane, at the Nexstage theatre in Ketchum. How’s that for a coincidence, two talented men, same name, different spelling. Some might see this as an interesting…
Apart from my wonderful family and my dearest friends, my two passions in life are acting and sailing. Just come back from LA and meetings on another film I want to make and of course act in – REUNION…people, whose opinions I value, like the script and that is good news and things seem to…
A little bit of the past coming up, with a screening of THE LION IN WINTER at The Magic Lantern Cinema in Ketchum, Idaho…next door to Sun Valley! This will be on September 18th for the start of the Film Festival, being held there that week. They have kindly invited me to come along…
