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Elbow’s Guy Garvey: ‘My advice for life? Have as much sex as possible’

INTERVIEW: The Manchester legends are headlining the Royal Albert Hall in London for this year’s Teenage Cancer Trust shows. Garvey catches up with Roisin O’Connor on marriage, fatherhood, gig etiquette and why life just keeps getting better

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Rachael Stirling 'scared' of her mother Dame Diana Rigg

Rachael Stirling has revealed she was “s*** scared” of her mother, Dame Diana Rigg and the legendary actress never wanted her daughter to follow in her acting footsteps.

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Giant at the Harold Pinter Theatre review: 'there is no more urgent play in London right now'

5/5 Mark Rosenblatt’s Giant tackles Roald Dahl’s antisemitism in blistering style with a sublimely nuanced performance by John Lithgow

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‘My mother’s death left me with an urgent mission’: Rachael Stirling on sharing Diana Rigg’s views on assisted dying

Her mother was furious at having no control over the end of her life. Now the actor is channelling that anger into getting the law changed

The Guardian - UK

‘We still haven’t cracked it!’ How much does a play change during previews?

It is a fraught time of cuts, rewrites – and alcohol. Our writer goes behind the scenes at The Divine Mrs S just as the official opening night looms and not everyone’s ready to face the music

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Long Day’s Journey Into Night; The Lover/The Collection; The Divine Mrs S – review

Brian Cox and Patricia Clarkson shine as dysfunctional parents in Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play, David Morrissey brings a bold new register to Pinter, and April De Angelis takes on Sarah Siddons

The Guardian - UK

The Divine Mrs S review – larky and good-natured historical comedy

There are shades of Blackadder in April De Angelis’s play about the great tragedian of 18th-century British theatre

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The Divine Mrs S at Hampstead Theatre review: Rachael Stirling is imperious but this in-jokey play disappoints

The story Sarah Siddons, the great 18th century actress, deserves better

Evening Standard

‘What is it about life that’s sacred?’: Harriet Walter backs change in law on assisted dying

The actor, who has played characters on both sides of the debate, says the UK needs a conversation about euthanasia and assisted suicide

The Guardian - UK

Diana Rigg’s daughter opens up about actor’s final days before death from cancer

The ‘Avengers’ star was a passionate advocate of assisted dying

The Independent UK

‘It’s gone on too long. Push me over the edge’: Diana Rigg’s dying wishes in the grip of cancer

Rachael Stirling reflects on her mother’s final months – and listens back to the recordings the actor made then, racked with pain, as a passionate advocate of assisted dying

The Guardian - UK

‘Nobody speaks about this’: Diana Rigg made impassioned plea for assisted dying law before death

In a recording in 2020, the actor made a case for giving ‘human beings true agency over their bodies at the end of life’

The Guardian - UK

Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2023: Nicole Scherzinger, Paul Mescal and Paapa Essiedu on starry shortlist

'Treasures' of the London stage shortlisted for November's awards also include Andrew Scott, Mark Gatiss, Patsy Ferran, Rachael Stirling and Sophie Okonedo

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: Dancing at Lughnasa; Private Lives – review

Brian Friel’s thoughtful 1930s drama remains absorbing, while Noel Coward’s classic has fine cigarette work but fails to ignite

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Private Lives review: Dark, uptight Coward revival isn’t as revelatory as it thinks

Rachael Stirling and Stephen Mangan play the sparring ex-lovers in a production that emphasises domestic violence

The Guardian - UK

Private Lives review – Coward’s comedy becomes a stark theatre of cruelty

Stephen Mangan and Rachael Stirling bare their teeth in a show that dials up the violence and sometimes struggles to navigate the humour

Evening Standard

Private Lives at the Donmar review: despite Mangan and Stirling this largely joyless revival fails to spark

This show was clearly planned as a crowd-pleaser, a reappraisal of a classic and a star vehicle, but it doesn’t fully satisfy on any of those counts

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Rachael Stirling: ‘Promise me you’ll take out half the swearing?’

The actor on sparring with Stephen Mangan in a new Private Lives, why she didn’t want to be a Bond girl, and what she learned from pulling pints

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The week in theatre: Punchdrunk: The Burnt City; Scandaltown

The immersive theatre trailblazers return with an all-consuming vision of the siege of Troy

The Guardian - UK

Scandaltown review – smut and silliness in modern Restoration comedy

Mike Bartlett’s rambunctious capers with types including Lady Susan Climber and Matt Eton MP are great fun if not exactly stinging satire

Evening Standard

Scandaltown at the Lyric Hammersmith review: Mike Bartlett’s social pastiche is showy but insubstantial

This contemporary Restoration comedy is one of Bartlett’s sketchier works

Daily Record

Stirling fans share memories of The Avengers and Game of Thrones actress Dame Diana Rigg

They have been reminiscing about the actress on the Old Stirling Facebook page.

Daily Mirror

Guy Garvey recalls final words he said to late father Don in last ever meet-up

Rock star Guy Garvey has shared the final words his father Don said to him in their last ever meet-up

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