6.11.02. Alan is currently filming the
BBC 1 adaptation of P.D. James' Death in Holy Orders, playing Father
Seabastian Morell. See Introduction/News for
more details.
5.11.02. Check
Introduction for news of an October outing
to Newcastle - with the RSC.
20.10.02. Production information added
for the Henry VI trilogy.
13.10.02. Another bit of trivia! from Sheridan Morley's theatre
column in Punch, collected in his book, Shooting Stars, plays and
players 1975-83.
13.10.02. Twelfth Night
additions
12.10.02. Re-design of
Trivia page! Thanks to Brigitte for the
photograph!
5.10.02 / Time, 19.12.01 / Review of
The Lord of the Rings.
25.9.02 / Interview with Alan Howard
in the Sunday Tribune, 12.5.02. Truth and
Lies. (Ciaran Carty)
22.9.02 / Patrick Stewart interview.
16.9.02 / Sally Jacobs interview.
10.9.02 / Extract from
Peter Brook and Shakespeare,
(Richard Proudfoot. Printed in Themes In Drama 2: Drama and Mimesis
(C.U.P. 1980). ) Antony and Cleopatra. The interviews with
Patrick Stewart and Sally Jacobs will be up soon!
8.9.02 / Extract from: Peter Brook and Shakespeare, Richard
Proudfoot. Printed in Themes In Drama 2: Drama and Mimesis (C.U.P.
1980). A Midsummer Night's Dream. (Interesting - though I
found myself disagreeing violently with some of the comments - but then this
production 'hooked' me onto Shakespeare for life, so I'm biassed!)
8.9.02 / The Guardian, 4.11.80 /
Review of Richard
II
7.9.02 / The Times, 4.11.80 / Review
of Richard II
7.9.02 / The Stage, 12.7.62 / Review
of The Broken Heart
5.9.02. / Birmingham Post, 29.10.80
/History about to complete itself /
article on the Richards at Stratford.
3.9.02. / Sunday Times, 11.1.81 /
He that plays the king / article
about Alan Howard
1.9.02. / Now! , 14.11.80 /
Double-edged irony of the Richards / review of Richard II
31.8.02. / Plays and Players, July
1975 / Henry IV Part I. Now! / 14.11.80 /
Double-edged irony of the Richards, review of Richard III
30.8.02. /Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra,
Much Ado About Nothing,
The Henry VI Trilogy,
The Merchant of Venice and
Twelfth Night added to Playing
Shakespeare. 29.8.02.
Henry IV Part I ,
Henry IV Part II and
Measure for Measure added to
Playing Shakespeare.
28.8.02. / Article added -
Howard's ends and means / Plays and
Players, July 1975. This also links from the Playing Shakespeare/Henry V
page.
26.8.02. / Richard II added to Playing
Shakespeare section.
26.8.02. / It had to appear some time!
Churchill's People! A famous moment in TV
history.
13.8.02. / King Lear added to Playing Shakespeare
section.
13.8.02. / Troilus and Cressida added to
Playing Shakespeare section.
As You Like
It and Macbeth added
to Playing Shakespeare section. Troilus
and Cressida and King Lear will be next.
Alan's views on Coriolanus - in discussion with David
Daniell, from 'Coriolanus in Europe', Athlone Press, 1980.
8.8.02 / Playing Shakespeare 'Coriolanus'
added.
5.8.02 Happy Birthday Alan!
6.6.02: / News items on the site will
now be announced at the bottom of the Introduction page and dated. This page
becomes New on the site, announcing the additions of articles etc. A new
Playing Shakespeare page will list the plays and
have navigation to the various articles, reviews etc which hopefully will make
it easier to use for the Shakespeare students!
Independent /13/4/94: Eight degrees of separation (Miranda
Carter)
Plays and Players, February 1971 /
A Pride of Hamlets / Peter Ansorge &
Peter Roberts
The Lady, 12th - 18th February, 02 /
Island Retreat / Sally Beauman
The unabridged audio tape of Rebecca's
Tale read by Robert Powell and Juliet Stevenson has been released.
(Chivers, £19.50)
Friday 2nd August, Midsomer Murders repeat of Dark
Autumn. ITV, 8.30 pm
Independent on Sunday, 30.3.1997 /
How We Met / Alan Howard and Christopher
Logue.
Article on Sally B and Destiny from Company
Magazine, April 1987. Best of the Bodice
Rippers.
Rebecca's
Tale has been shortlisted for the WH Smith Thumping Good Read
Award.
In depth article from The Dublin Review,
Number 7, Summer 2002, McGuinness and the Boys,
by Adrian Frazier. Sections 3 about the history of Edward's and Mac
Liammóir, and 6 about the Orson Welles' Othello have been cut -
though they are interesting - and the focus is on the play
itself.
Extract from Rosenberg's The Masks of Hamlet, published
1992.
Review for Good
at The Booth Theatre, New York, USA.
Top 25 fiction audio books 4 weeks ending 15th
June 2002, reported in The Bookseller, 12.7.02: Number 20, Enigma, by Robert
Harris, Random House. Read by Alan Howard. (It's also one of the oldest in
terms of release date of 1995 compared with most of the others which have
release dates from 2000 - 2002!)
The Guardian, 13.7.02: Spell it out - Sally Beauman on writing.
(I put one of my favourite Fuseli paintings in as an illustration. I use
it when teaching Shakespeare in art and drama, and the 'vasty deep' joke is one
of my favourite 'Shakespearean bits' as well!) Oh, and for those like me who
don't know what an RSJ is - I had to ask my partner - it's a load bearing steel
girder used in building.
A few corrections to Career List!
Television review of Coriolanus, BBC2, Daily Telegraph,
23.4.84.
Dianeira review added to radio
section.
A slightly surreal article from the Adelaide
Advertiser, 5.6.73. The man with the hippo
tooth
Additions to Trivia, Alan in his own words ( from the
Oxford Mail and the San Francisco Chronicle), Sally B
page, and a sort of review of Gates
of Gold
Review of War
Music, Radio 3 / 10/5/81.
New York Magazine /26/4/76: Henry Reconsidered - Royal And Shakespearean
(Sally Beauman)
Had a chat with Frank McGuinness in the bar
after the performance of 'Gates of Gold' last Saturday. He says they want to
tour it, at least to London, but he wants the same cast. So fingers crossed!
Theatre was full and stunning performances from Alan and Donna Dent - there is
a great deal in this play and I would like to see it again.
'Rebecca's Tale' is still riding high in the
paperback book charts. It is the Penguin Readers Club book of the month.
Click
here to go to their website and read their interview with Sally
Beauman.
Two new
pictures of the production. Many thanks to Sinéad McGrath of the
Gate Theatre who has been absolutely wonderful in sending information and
pictures!
Reviews of 'Gates of Gold' from
INDUBLIN and from the
Irish Evening Herald. The Irish Herald
review is placed under the Times' review as they are written by the same
critic, though, unlike the Sheridan Morleys of this world, it is a different
piece obviously written for a different reading audience - same sentiment,
different style! It makes for an interesting comparison. Some other comments on
Alan's performance - not the Triffid one (see Trivia) - are underneath the
INDUBLIN piece.
A trivia
addition!
Sally is 'doing' the Edinburgh Book Festival on
13th August at 12.30pm.
Out to lunch with
Alan Howard - article in the Sunday Express Magazine,
1.5.1994.
A
'Macbeth' review indicating the critical divide over this
production - splitting the critics!
Sunday Express Magazine /31/3/91: My
Weekend - Sally Beauman
Interview with
Alan about 'Gates of Gold', Irish Examiner, 5.5.02.
Next article!
Independent July 1995.
Cover added to
the television section.
Saturday 18.5.01: Rebecca's Tale is at number 5
in the Times paperback fiction chart.
Saturday 11.5.02: Rebecca's Tale is at
number 9 in the paperback charts.
Gates of Gold review:
The Stage, 9.5.02.
Gates of Gold review:
Financial Times, 8.5.02.
Gates of Gold review:
Daily Telegraph,
7.5.02.
Irish Sunday
Independent review of Gates of Gold. 5.5.02
Radio pages added. War Music and Kings
Starting to add links to other theatre and related
websites
Edited some of the Reviews linked pages and added programme
pictures.
Five star review from The Guardian, 4.5.02
Four Star review from The Times, 3.5.02
Interview with Frank
McGuinness on RTE 1's Rattlebag programme, 30.4.02
Some exclusive production photographs from Gates of
Gold! Thanks to Sinéad at The Gate Theatre!
Production Photograph of Gates of Gold!
Last bits on radio Forsytes!
Play it again Soames, from the Sunday Telegraph
7 Days magazine, 23.9.1990, and a review.
First reports in from Dublin! Play is very
good, Alan is wonderful - sit on right side if possible as he is stage left all
the time! - Cheers at the end on first preview night - and a fantastic dressing
gown for curtain call. The women are also very good. Dublin cold, wet and windy
and everyone except the cast has a cold. (A slight exaggeration, I
think).
More added to The Forsyte Chronicles - family
tree, cast list and interview - follow the links from the Radio
page.
A review of The Country
Wife at the Belgrade Theatre, 19.6.59. I'm not sure if it was edited as
it reads rather strangely occasionally!
Reviews of 'Roots' at the Belgrade Theatre,
25.2.1959.
All really great actors tend to split critical
opinion in certain roles. Here is a new page linking to
Trivia showing some of the varying
viewpoints on certain performances!
'A Midsummer
Night's Dream': discussion between actors from the RSC and students
from the Polish State Theatre School, Warsaw, November 1972
Early interview at the Connaught Theatre,
Worthing - interesting
historically.
Tidied up the Trivia page and added some more 'gems'!
Some slight improvements to the
Sally page - prompted by the
Bath
Literature Festival linking to the page! Sally is appearing at the
Festival on March 9th, 4 pm at the Guildhall.
Improvements to the Howard family page, with an extra picture
added.
Review and photograph of Abraham Lincoln at the Belgrade Theatre,
Birmingham Mail, 4.11.59.
Some historical information on the
Belgrade Theatre! Link to and from the
Belgrade and Coventry Review page.
Great
Expectations photograph confirmed by Charlie Kay! It definitely is
G.E. not Christmas Carol.
Film
Reviews page begun with a review of The Cook, The
Thief, His Wife And Her Lover.
Rebecca's Tale
in paperback - update on Sally B news!
Interview
with Alan about London - and 'Flight' - in 1998. National archive attributes it
to 'This Is London', they say no and suggested 'London This Week'. Anyway, it
is not one that many of us will have seen! It has ben added to the
Articles for Research page.
Picture for Five Finger
Exercise. Review to follow!
Remember to bookmark the new website address:
www.alanhoward.org.uk
Sound! Not top
quality, but enough to get a reasonable idea!
Review of A Christmas
Carol. Birmingham Post, 9.12.58.
New production pictures! One More River - IN COLOUR!!!! Thanks to MH for
this one. Great Expectations - although
this is listed in the Coventry Archive as A Christmas Carol! Charles Kay
was not in a scene with Wilkins (Alan Howard) in Carol, but he was in
scenes with Pip in Great Expectations, so I have reallocated it! Colour
picture of Never Had It So Good. Colour
picture of Charley's Aunt. Two pictures of
I'm Talking About Jerusalem and
Pygmalion 1960 in colour!
Interview in
the Coventry Evening Standard, Thursday 24th December 1959. One for the
connoisseur!
Alan is the Voice of the Ring in the film of
Lord of the Rings!
Alan on the South
American tour 1964
The Merchant of
Venice and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Review of the Brighton
performances, (The Stage, 20.2.64)
The Chances,
Chichester Festival Theatre, review, (The Stage, 5.7.62)
The Spider's
Web Belgrade Theatre, (B'ham Post, 19.1.60)
Harvey review,
at the Belgrade Theatre,1.12.59
Washington review
of Lulu (Plays International, September 2001)
More pictures added to the family pages.
Edward Compton in
'To-morrow' and Isabel Bateman with Irving in
'Othello'.
More about 'Hamlet'. A report on the
rehearsals of the 1970 'Hamlet' production
at Stratford. Observer, 1970.
Article on the World Tour of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
taken from 'Flourish' the RSC magazine, 22.5.73.
List of reviews and
articles 1960s to 2000. (These may take approximately one minute to
load.) There is a link from the list of Articles on Alan for' those doing serious
research' page.
Working Like
Trojans, article on 'Kings' (Edinburgh Fringe), in The Scotsman,
18.8.91
Rattle of a Simple
Man review, the Connaught Theatre, Worthing. 2.10.1963
Little Brown webpage - interview with Sally
Beauman and extracts from 'Rebecca's Tale' - nice site! Here is the link for
anyone who wants to check it out:
www.rebeccas-tale.co.uk
Living with
Rebecca. Sally Beauman on her new book. Guardian,
12.9.01.
Reviews of
Rebecca's Tale
Sally B will be on 'Woman's Hour', Tuesday 18th
September, discussing Rebecca's Tale.
Alan was spotted in the audience at the Almeida
on Monday night (for Platanov), and chatting with Ian McDiarmid in the
interval. He was with his partner, Sally Beauman.
Extracts of Rebecca's Tale published in the
Sunday Express magazine, 2.9.01 and 9.9.01.
Waterstone's Quarterly magazine feature,
A literary haunting, plus full page advert and comment by Joanna
Trollope, "Passionate, vivid, elusive...... as compelling as the original. A
real achievement." (And as I read it by the pool in the Algarve in August I
can agree!!! JP.)
Sunday Telegraph 2.9.01. Article on Daphne du
Maurier and 'Rebecca' by Sally B.
New 'Lulu' picture from
The Independent, 5.9.01.
Quotes from the Press
Release for 'Midsomer Murders'
Reluctant Heroes
review, the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, 12.5.59.
Midsomer Murders new series begins Sunday 26th
August. Dark Autumn will be screened on Sunday 16th September!
Pictures for Arsenic and
Old Lace, Out of the Frying Pan,
Room at the Paradise, The
Bridge of Sighs and Charley's
Aunt
Rumour, totally unsubstantiated and possibly
not true, but here it is anyway! Brad Pitt, Olivia Williams, signed up for 'The
Gambler', based on the Dostoyevsky novel. Alan Rickman and Alan Howard are to
play his mentors. Hmmmmm!
Production photograph for The Chances, Chichester, 1962.
List of author
events for Sally B's new book, from the Little Brown
site
Rehearsal picture for Henry V 1966 - review to follow
More comments on the 'Bridge of Sighs' bubble
car!
New review of 'Arsenic
and Old Lace', Leamington Spa Courier, 1.5.59
Addition to 'In his own
words' page on his beginnings with link to the review that backed up his family's
opinion!
Article 'An audience
with the royal pretender' - Newcastle Evening Chronicle,
27.2.79
One More River Review -
The Belgrade Theatre, 1960
New York
Times Review of 'Lulu'
Alan is guesting in one of the episodes in the
new series of Midsomer Murders, 'Dark Autumn'. For information and a picture go
to www.geocities.com/midsomer_murders/darkautumn.html
Murder In The Cathedral
Review - The Belgrade Theatre, 1959
Washington Post
'Lulu' review, 22.6.01
Alan Howard on Kings
News on Sally B's new
novel, Rebecca's Tale, from the Bookseller
Magazine
(Reviews of early work at the Belgrade
Theatre, Coventry, now have their own page accessed through the Reviews page.)
Sally page
additions and slight redesign.
Advertisement in
the Irish press for Gates of Gold.
Insights into the
Forsytes: Gillian Reynolds previews BBC radio's epic dramatisation,
Daily Telegraph, 29.9.90.
Forsyte
Chronicles begun and review for The Dog It
Was That Died - links up and running!
Introducing two new sections - radio and
television, but the links will not be activated until there is a decent amount
of information on the pages! The first will be on The Forsyte Chronicles
- the BBC Radio 4 version, of course!
Replaced picture in article on
The Royal Pretender! so it is now different
from the one in A full house!
Article on Frank
McGuinness, Irish Sunday Independent, 21.4.02
Article, On with the
motley, Observer, 26.5.1985.
Article, The king
as iconoclast, Sunday News, 25.4.76. (USA)
News on Rebecca's
Tale, the paperback from Waterstone's Quarterly Magazine, Issue 4,
2002.
Article: Once more into
battle (with Mr Howard in his tent). From the Glasgow Herald,
22.8.91.
The new page on the Gate website now puts the
last night of 'Gates of Gold' as June 8th! Worth checking out if you want a
half term holiday in Dublin to coincide with a theatre visit!
More news about Gates of
Gold.
The
Changeling review - Encore Magazine, May/June 1961.
Newcastle Journal article -
A Full House - 19.1.1978.
All RSC reviews now have at least one image of
a programme for each production. A page on The
Tempest has been added, although not as a review. It has a link to the
Trivia page for the comment on the 'goddesses'!
New article from June 2000 -
Howard's Way - from What's On In London.
Additional picture is from one of the Bath newspapers.
Improved the Articles section a bit - well, a lot actually!
Click on the articles links to judge the 'improvements'. The Sally Beauman
pages on Rebecca's Tale have also had some
maintenance work!
Doing plays the Howard
way: article in the Highbury and Islington Express, 4th September
1998.
'The Private Ear' and
'The Public Eye' review, Worthing Gazette, 30.10.1963.
Reviews added: From the Belgrade Theatre:
Not in the Book, Ferdinand the Matador, The Merchant of Venice and Uncle Dundo. From The Orange Tree Theatre,
Winter.
Five Finger
Exercise review added to production photograph.
Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th March, BBC1,
Alan is in 'Manhunt'!
Hot off the press! The Gate Theatre, Dublin,
announce the world premiere of Gates of Gold by Frank
McGuinness. Cast includes, Donna Dent, Alan Howard and Richard Johnson.
Previews from April 25th, opens April 30th. Box Office:
0035318744045. |
