Simon Callow

3 weeks ago | tvmovie.de | Steve Oedekerk |Jim Carrey |Ian McNeice |Simon Callow

Alarm in Afrika! Die heilige Fledermaus des Wachati-Stammes ist verschwunden. Taucht das Tier nicht wieder auf, platzt die Hochzeit der Prinzessin mit dem Häuptlingssohn der verfeindeten Wachootoos. Und das bedeutet Krieg! Deshalb wird Tierdetektiv Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey) mit der Suche beauftragt. Schon bald sorgt er für Chaos im Urwald.

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Simon Callow

A new production about the composer's family explores how Bayreuth became a stronghold of extreme Right-wing ideology endorsed by HitlerIt takes some chutzpah to write an opera about Richard Wagner, that titanically complex figure (both as man and musician) who took opera to places it had never been before and rarely has since. Among the many problems is an obvious one: do you quote your composer's music, or attempt pastiche? Or ignore it altogether?

1 month ago | observer.co.uk | Simon Callow

Trinity restaurant in Clapham It’s taken almost 20 years to get here, but arriving at Trinity in Clapham is worth the wait Photographs Sophia EvansThis was a red-letter week for me: I finally got to go to Trinity. When its opening was announced in 2006 – nearly 20 years ago, God help us all – I made a mental note to go, because I knew that Adam Byatt, the chef-proprietor, had worked at the late-lamented The Square.

Mar 6, 2025 | comedy.co.uk | Kiell Smith-Bynoe |Adrian Edmondson |Simon Callow |Christopher Ryan

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Sep 28, 2024 | thetimes.com | Simon Callow

I was filming in Paris when the news of Maggie Smith’s death came through, and a number of actors, American and French, came up to console me. They knew nothing of any personal relationship I might have with her, they simply knew that the British acting profession had lost one of its absolute greats and that I, as a British actor, would be feeling bereft and diminished. They knew that a huge figure who celebrated and embodied the power and possibility of acting had departed the scene.