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Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville will star in a new production of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night as part of the Bristol Old Vic’s 250th anniversary season next year.
Richard Eyre will direct the production, which marks a further collaboration between the director and Manville, following their work together on the Olivier-winning Ghosts. Irons returns to the stage for the first time since starring as Harold Macmillan in the National Theatre’s production of Never So Good in 2008. [Actually, Jeremy was in The Gods Weep in 2010.]
Long Day’s Journey into Night, widely considered one of the greatest tragedies of the modern age, takes place over a single day and follows ageing actor James Tyrone and his wife Mary and their family as they struggle through financial hardship and drug addiction.
Eyre said: “The first play I ever saw – at the age of 15 – was at Bristol Old Vic. To be back here over 50 years later to direct… Long Day’s Journey into Night – one of the greatest (and saddest) plays ever written – is a real privilege.”
The 1956 play will be one of four new productions that will each celebrate one century in the theatre’s lifespan.
Jeremy Irons was at the after-party, following the Press Night performance of “Mr. Foote’s Other Leg”, at the Hampstead Theatre in London. The play is based on the book by Ian Kelly and is directed by Richard Eyre. The play stars Simon Russell Beale, Micah Balfour, Sophie Bleasdale, Joshua Elliott, Jenny Galloway, Ian Kelly, Dervla Kirwan, Forbes Masson, Joseph Millson and Colin Stinton. The entire run of the play is SOLD OUT.
In Georgian London no one is more famous than Samuel Foote. Satirist, impressionist and dangerous comedian, he has become a celebrity in a city and at a moment in time when the concept of selling personality was born. He even has the ear of the king.
Adored by many, despised by some, Foote finds himself at the sharp end of attacks from the press…and a surgeon’s knife. And in an age obsessed with fame, his colleagues from the worlds of science and the stage – from Benjamin Franklin to David Garrick – begin to wonder: does fame make you mad?
Ian Kelly’s riotously funny new play, based on his award-winning biography of Foote, explores our obsession with celebrities, and their rise and fall, through the true story of the Oscar Wilde of the 18th century. Kelly’s other biographies include Antonin Careme, Beau Brummell, Giacomo Casanova (Sunday Times Biography of the Year 2008), and Dame Vivienne Westwood.
Richard Eyre returns to Hampstead following the sell out hit The Last Of The Duchess. His recent theatre credits include Ghosts (Alemida/West End), Pajama Game (Chichester/West End) and Guys and Dolls (National Theatre).
BAFTA and Olivier award-winner Simon Russell Beale makes his Hampstead debut. His recent theatre credits include King Lear (National Theatre), Privates on Parade (West End) and the forthcoming Temple (Donmar).
Running time is approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes including an interval.
Isabella Rossellini presented a theatrical tribute to one of the most celebrated actresses of the 20th century. Marking the centennial of Ingrid Bergman’s birth on August 29, 1915, Rossellini was joined in performance by actor Jeremy Irons to uncover the woman and artist behind the screen legend. The staging incorporated Rossellini’s own memories of her mother, plus interviews, unpublished letters, personal videos, and previously unreleased video clips and images from private Bergman’s archives.
Rossellini and Irons performed live on stage portraying Bergman and various characters from her colorful life, guiding the audience through her experiences while original film footage and images from her private archive were projected on a screen. Woven throughout the performance were testimonies and stories from friends and artists she knew and worked with, such as Roberto Rossellini, Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Capa, Ernest Hemingway, and many others.
Created and written by Ludovica Damiani and Guido Torlonia
in collaboration with Isabella Rossellini
Directed by Guido Torlonia
Jeremy Irons and fellow members of the Guggenheim Motorcycle Club, including Laurence Fishburne, Thomas Krens, Lauren Hutton, Harold Perrineau and Catherine Nouvel, got together in September 2015 to ride motorcycles in memory of their late member, Dennis Hopper.
Jeremy Irons and Isabella Rossellini were at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, on Sunday 6 September 2015, for a tribute to Ingrid Bergman. Their theatrical performance interwove memories, interviews and letters with home movies and footage from throughout Ingrid Bergman’s life and career.
Jeremy Irons was interviewed by Nadine O’Regan for the Sunday Business Post. Photos by John Allen.
The issue came out on Sunday 30 August 2015. It is available to purchase and download from http://www.businesspost.ie/
From Nadine O’Regan’s Instagram account @nadineoregan :
“I went home to West Cork a little while back for my holidays and, while there, wound up getting an interview with Oscar winner Jeremy Irons, who lives in an ochre-coloured castle just outside Skibbereen. We talked Hollywood, West Cork and castle restoration, and he made me a very nice lunch:-) It’s the cover of The Sunday Business Post Magazine tomorrow if you fancy a read. x.”
Jeremy Irons was on hand, on Friday 28 August, in Waterville, Co. Kerry at the Tech Amergin Arts and Education Centre, to unveil a suicide memorial plaque, in a communal garden.
Photos via: The Outreach Cahersiveen, Unmask, Console, Tech Amergin, Don Macmonagle, @Teri_o_d
Actor Jeremy Irons has said that people suffering from suicidal thoughts can reach out and be helped through love, friendship and community, as he unveiled a memorial plaque to all those who lost their lives to suicide in south Kerry.
Mr Irons said he was delighted to be able to help highlight the issue of suicide by unveiling the memorial plaque in a community garden at Tech Amergin in Waterville, as it was important that people realise that they can overcome suicidal thoughts and lead full lives.
“Why should there be a suicide memorial plaque – why? Because, like in the last century nobody talked about tuberculosis if it was in the family, like 50 years ago, nobody talked about cancer if it was in the family, like 30 years ago nobody talked about a family member who was gay,” he said.
“This is all real life, people are like that – sometimes people commit suicide, sometimes people think about committing suicide and it’s a terrible, terrible waste of life, and by recognising it we are not saying it’s good, it’s like by recognising evil one is saying, it is there but let’s try to avoid it.
“People who have those tendencies should be helped as much as they can be with friendship and love and community, with talking and having someone at the end of a phone who they can tell how they feel because it’s not that rare – deep depression and suicidal thoughts are not that far apart.”
Mr Irons said that people should realise that no matter how bleak the future appears, there is always hope, and what better way to remind people of that than with a memorial plaque in a communal garden which highlights that they are not alone.
“I have always been taught, it’s darkest before the dawn, and when I get really low, there’s a little bird in me saying ‘It can only better’ and it’s that little bird we want to put in the ears of people thinking of ending their journey in life – to say ‘Wait, it can better’.
“The fact that the firm has gone bust and your life’s work has been destroyed is not the end of the world – the sky and sea are still there, people are still there, friends are still there, community is still there – look in other places, don’t dwell on that one thing which makes you feel life is worthless.”
Tackle stigma
The suicide memorial plaque, which was erected beside a ceramic waterfall, was the idea of Peter Holthusen, who grew up in the UK but lives in Cahersiveen.
He said it was important that people tackle the stigma of suicide, which continues to exist in many countries.
Mr Holthusen, who lost both his great-grandfather and his grandmother to suicide, said that rural areas such as south Kerry are often “out on a limb” when it comes to funding for mental health services, but he hoped the plaque and garden will help highlight the issue.
“It’s not really even so much about today or Jeremy Irons or myself or anybody who has been involved in this, it’s about tomorrow and providing a focal point where people can come down at any time and contemplate the parting of a loved one and gain solace in the gardens here.”
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