
Annabel Sampson
Features Editor at Tatler
Features Editor @tatlermagazine; Arts, culture and interviews [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
tatler.com | Annabel Sampson
You’re all versed in the multi-layered plot of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the sparring Athenian lovers, the scheming fairies and Bottom and his amateur dramatics club – but rarely will you have seen Shakespeare’s wildly popular comedy performed quite like this. Such as in The Bridge’s shape-shifting, aerial-swinging, purple-drenched, fairy light-adorned auditorium.
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1 month ago |
tatler.com | Annabel Sampson
Rose Leslie sweeps into a pub in rural most Suffolk, a land of hedge-lined winding lanes, thatched houses and luscious green fields. She is wearing patterned floral trousers and a warm jumper, and her signature red hair is freshly washed and drying naturally en plein air. Suffolk – as well as north-east London – has been home to her and her husband (and Game of Thrones co-star), Kit Harington, for seven years.
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1 month ago |
tatler.com | Annabel Sampson
Victoria Smurfit, ice blonde hair beyond her shoulders, sweeps into a gargantuan back room at the Lyric Hammersmith for our interview. At 51, she’s a shock of piercing blue eyes, razor-sharp cheekbones and dressed in a sleeveless cream roll neck and trousers. A look which oozes stealth wealth. She’s right in the midst of rehearsals, days away from the opening of an adaptation of Ibsen’s Ghosts – and her head is full of it, so much so, she’s lost her hair tie.
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1 month ago |
tatler.com | Annabel Sampson
There is a whiff of Slough House about Krapp’s unkempt attic headquarters at the York Theatre Royal, as the setting for Hollywood actor Gary Oldman’s take on Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, a 50-minute soliloquy about a contemplative old geezer reviewing the detritus of his life. In fact, Jackson Lamb, the improbable hero of AppleTV’s Slow Horses would likely approve of the undecorous, equally dishevelled, shirt-rumpled 69-year-old Krapp.
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2 months ago |
tatler.com | Annabel Sampson
Tucked into a corner of The Twenty Two on Grosvenor Square, on a plush green velvet sofa, fresh from the Oliviers two nights before and making final tweaks to a ring-bound script is New Yorker Lila Raicek, the playwright who will soon be the talk of the town (and who is currently ‘playwright in residence’ at the Mayfair private members’ club).
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