Jeremy Irons in the Bristol Old Vic Spring Season 2016 Brochure

Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville are featured on the cover of the Bristol Old Vic’s Spring Season 2016 brochure.

Jeremy and Lesley will star in Long Day’s Journey into Night, directed by Richard Eyre, from 23 March until 23 April 2016.

View the full brochure in .pdf format HERE.

Purchase tickets for Long Day’s Journey into Night HERE.

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Jeremy Irons Attends SeriousFun London Gala

Paul Newman founded the SeriousFun Children’s Network in 1988 and the UK gala at the Roundhouse in London was honouring Newman and raising money for the charity.

Joining Jeremy Irons and Sinead Cusack at the event were Renee Zellweger, Danny DeVito and singers Corinne Bailey Rae and David Gray.

Jeremy Irons said he is a “great admirer” of the charity, adding that Newman had “the element of the child” in him.

“He loved life. And I think he wanted to give kids in this situation the opportunity to have a bit of life in the short time they had left or while they were going through this difficult time,” he said.  Irons said Newman would have been “thrilled” about the event.

The London gala is the final of three galas the organisation hosted this year to honour Newman’s legacy during what would have been his 90th year.  Newman’s Own Foundation has been providing support to camps and programmes around the world since the charity began.  Funds raised at the galas will also benefit the UK camp which is called Over The Wall.

Read the full article from the Express and Star

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Jeremy Irons Attends ‘Peter Sellers: Behind the Camera’ Exhibition

Jeremy Irons, his dog Smudge, and Sinead Cusack attended the VIP private view of the photo exhibition Peter Sellers: Behind the Camera, on 27 October, at 19 Beauchamp Place. The photos are being auctioned to benefit the British Heart Foundation. A photo of Sinead is among those on display.

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Jeremy Irons Pays Homage to T.S. Eliot at Wilton’s Music Hall

Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack, Simon Russell Beale, Ben Whishaw and Fiona Shaw paid homage to T.S. Eliot, at Wilton’s Music Hall in London, on Wednesday 21 October 2015.

Jeremy Irons read “Gus: The Theatre Cat” and “Little Gidding”.

Read a review of the event from The Londonist

A great account of the event from ifindpeopleconfusing on Tumblr

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Jeremy Irons Performs at Belarus Free Theatre Concert

Jeremy Irons and Juliet Stevenson read excerpts from Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, at the Belarus Free Theatre Concert Staging a Revolution: I’m with the Banned at Koko in London, on Sunday 18 October 2015.

The event was also live-streamed on BBC Arts.

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Jeremy Irons to Perform at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona – January 2016

Jeremy Irons will be in Barcelona, Spain on Saturday 23 January 2016 at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.

Goethe’s classic, narrated by a master actor

This innovative programme, devised by the orchestra of the Wiener Akademie, links together a soprano voice, pieces of incidental music, and the actor Jeremy Irons telling the story of Egmont.  The text for this work was adapted from Goethe’s play by Christopher Hampton, the Oscar-winning script writer.

Click here to purchase tickets.

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Jeremy Irons in TG4 Documentary About ‘Langrishe, Go Down’

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Catherine Foley, author and broadcaster, tells the story of a feature film, once a cause celebre, now mostly forgotten.  The film, Langrishe, Go Down, starring young actors Judi Dench and Jeremy Irons,   both later to have stellar film careers, was shot at various locations in south Kilkenny in 1978.  The screenplay was by Harold Pinter, based on Aidan Higgins’ acclaimed novel of the same title.    Funding for the production came from the BBC and with support from RTÉ.   On release, the film was banned by the Irish Film Censor who took exception to some scenes of nudity.  As a result, it was never screened in Ireland.

Last year at the local cultural festival, Éigse Sliabh Rua 2014, the film was screened in Ireland for the first time in the village where it was originally shot. The reactions of those present at the gala screening 35 years later are seen in this new documentary. Jeremy Irons, who was present to view the film and talk to friends and fans afterwards, says that the part he played in Langrishe, Go Down was his first big break into films.

The video is available to watch for the next 36 days at the following link:

http://www.tg4.ie/en/programmes/cogar/

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Jeremy Irons to Pay Homage to T.S. Eliot at Wilton’s Music Hall

From The London Library

The London Library announced today that Jeremy Irons, Simon Russell Beale, Fiona Shaw, and Ben Whishaw will be taking centre stage in the Library’s special celebration of T.S. Eliot on 21st October 2015.

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Taking place at Wilton’s Music Hall – one of the country’s most atmospheric theatres – the single performance promises to be a unique tribute to one of the world’s best known writers.

Philip Spedding, Development Director at The London Library said, “Jeremy Irons, Simon Russell Beale, Fiona Shaw, and Ben Whishaw are intimately associated with some of the most powerful recent performances of Eliot’s work. We are delighted that they are coming together for what promises to be a memorable tribute to a genuinely great writer”.

The evening of readings is looking to include extracts from a range of T.S. Eliot’s work including The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockFour QuartetsThe Waste LandThe Hollow Men and Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.

With tickets on sale to the public, alongside an invited audience of special guests, all proceeds from the evening at Wilton’s Music Hall will go to support The London Library, a charity which is one of the world’s largest independent lending libraries and will be celebrating its 175th year in 2016.

Tickets for this special fundraising evening are £55 (£45 for London Library members). The performance will take place at 7.30pm on 21st October at Wilton’s Music Hall, 1 Graces Alley, London E1 8JB. To book, telephone Wilton’s (020 7702 2789) or visit www.wiltons.org.uk.

For further information contact: Julian Lloyd, Head of Communications, The London Library; Julian.lloyd@londonlibrary.co.uk

Jeremy Irons on The Prison Phoenix Trust – September 2015

Jeremy Irons, Patron of the Prison Phoenix Trust, speaks about the work of that charity, while introducing their 2015 lecture.

Jeremy Irons at the 2015 Zurich Film Festival

The eleventh edition of the Zurich Film Festival opened on 24 September with The Man Who Knew Infinity.

Actors Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel, Devika Bhise and Stephen Fry, director Matthew Brown and producer Edward R. Pressman  travelled to Zurich to attend the film’s European premiere screening. The mayor of Zurich, Corine Mauch, and Switzerland’s culture minister, Alain Berset, were also expected to attend. The stars were on the Green Carpet at Sechseläutenplatz from 19:00 on Thursday 24 September.

High-Rise premiered at the Zurich Film Festival on Friday 25 September

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