Event 39

Saturday 9th November 2024 | 6.00 pm

Event 39 | Simon Russell Beale | A Piece of Work

£15.00

Simon Russell Beale – A Piece of Work – Playing Shakespeare and Other Stories

One of the nation’s finest and most beloved actors, Simon Russell Beale relates his life through a career playing Shakespeare. Ever since his appearance at school as a glamorous Desdemona, complete with false eyelashes, he has been captivated by the Bard. In A Piece of Work, Beale tries to get under the skin of the playwright and find out what interested him. Was Shakespeare an instinctive ‘conservative’ or, rather, gently subversive? Funny and touching about his own family and early life, Beale writes about the parallels with some Shakespeare characters as well as sharing his thoughts about the creative people he counts as friends.

in conversation with Jo Willett

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When: Saturday 9th November 2024 @ 6.00 pm
Where: Electric Palace
Sponsored by: Liz and Richard Strang

Description

Sir Simon Russell Beale studied at Cambridge University before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company. Described by the Daily Telegraph as, ‘the finest actor of his generation’, he has been lauded for both his stage and TV work, winning many awards including the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Evening Standard Best Actor Award and the BAFTA Best Actor Award. He was awarded the CBE in 2003 and knighted in 2019.

Jo Willett has been a tv drama and comedy producer for all her working life. She has produced many of our most admired and loved programmes.  She won a BAFTA for A Rather English Marriage and an Emmy for Dirty Tricks. For the past few years Jo has started a second career writing historical biographies. Her first book, The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu, was published in March 2021, and her second, Sarah Siddons, is event 9 in this year’s Bridport Literary Festival.

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