Topic: Stephen Dillane
The star of this sparse modern-dress production of Ibsen's poetic 1892 play is Gemma Arterton. Her best scenes come when she goads Stephen Dillane, the complex master builder of the title. The Master Builder shows Ibsen probing the palsied uncertainty of ...
Soccer's attempted answer to Rocky. With no mother, and no support from his working class father in terms of his soccer prowess, Santiago has little hope of achieving his dreams, until he is offered a trail at monster English Premier League ...
Considering that The Tempest opens with a shipwreck and mostly takes place on an island, a question arises for any director: When Prospero (Stephen Dillane) promises, "I'll drown my book," don't doubt the sorcerer; he'll do it.. Part of ...
Sam Mendes skips over a season for his wistful, eye-catching but lopsided As You Like It, this year's Bridge Project kickoff. When cross-dressed Rosalind (Juliet Rylance), accompanied by Celia (Michelle Beck) and court clown Touchstone (Thomas Sadoski) flee to Arden as ...
Surely Stephen Dillane-consummate British actor and thinking person's heartthrob-couldn't have been insulted by his Tony Award in 2000? As Padmore sings, Dillane interpolates the Samuel Beckett prose piece that gives the hybrid work its title, and a Foley artist provides ...
Schubert's song cycle Winterreise has, in recent years, been done on film, with dancer, with puppets, probably on ice. Now it has had the Katie Mitchell treatment, in a presentation called One Evening, with tenor Mark Padmore, speaker Stephen Dillane and ...
An adaptation of Anne Michaels's prize-winning novel, Fugitive Pieces reduces the Holocaust and its aftermath to a cosy soap opera. Stephen Dillane is writer Jakob Beer, who can't forget that his parents - and possibly his sister Bella (Nina Dobrev) - were ...
Stephen Dillane speaks to us in a voice of meditative calm, all extraneous emotion drained from it. In this extraordinary performance, during which Dillane speaks from capacious memory TS Eliot's Four Quartets, he holds the audience in rapt silence. Admittedly, Eliot ...
A shocking and lurid tale told in a remarkably subtle way, Savage Grace is the story of a languid, filthy rich and, of course, dysfunctional family. Julianne Moore is the chillingly self-absorbed wife of the heir to the Bakelite fortune, played insouciantly ...
