When the celebrated actor Pamela Rabe was first approached to play Winnie, the central character in Samuel Beckett’s play Happy Days, she had to think about it. Winnie, you see, is not for the faint-hearted. Buried up to her waist in the first act and up to her neck in…
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Many recording artists release a second album, but few do it at 97. For Noel Balfour, his love of music keeps him going. Well, not just going: he looks 25 years younger than his age when we meet at Andy Busuttil’s Hazelbrook studio, Blue Mountains Sound, where Balfour has just…
When director Damien Ryan approached actor Liam Gamble to play Richard III, Gamble was unfamiliar with both the historical figure and the Shakespearian character. After investigating him, he was taken by this “badass guy” and duly auditioned. “One of the reasons I cast Liam was the searing honesty of his…