Masterclass Tuesday 21st June 2:30-4:00pm Theatre Royal Haymarket For our third Masterclass in June, come on down and see us for an opportunity to put your questions to award winning actor John Simm! About John John Simm’s prolific career encompasses extensive theatre, film & television credits. His theatre work includes Pinter’s The Homecoming and The Hothouse at … Continue reading
BBC Radio 6 Music with Shaun Keaveny 26 Nov 2015 John Simm joins Shaun Keaveny to chat about his new play ‘The Homecoming’. Play radio interview (00:10:09): Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 Front Row with John Wilson 25 Nov 2015 Harold Pinter’s great drama of familial power struggles, ‘The Homecoming’ was first staged half a century ago. As a new production opens, John Wilson talks to John Simm, who plays Lennie, its director, Jamie Lloyd, and Pinter’s biographer, Michael Billington, who, as well as … Continue reading
The Jamie Lloyd Company The Homecoming Trafalgar Studios 14 Nov 2015 – 13 Feb 2016 Following the extraordinary success of two seasons at Trafalgar Studios, director Jamie Lloyd and The Jamie Lloyd Company return with Harold Pinter’s enigmatic masterpiece, The Homecoming, in the 50th anniversary year of the multi award-winning modern classic. Book Tickets Trailer: … Continue reading
The Guardian Theatre 18 Nov 2015 Backstage dramas: theatre stars wait in the wings – in pictures Robert Lindsay, John Simm, Susannah Fielding and others get ready to make a great entrance in these exclusive photographs by Matt Humphrey whose company Curtain Call is producing a book of backstage images and interviews. The book will … Continue reading
The Jamie Lloyd Company Trafalgar Studios The Homecoming 14 November 2015 – 13 February 2016 Book Tickets Now Following the extraordinary success of two seasons at Trafalgar Studios, director Jamie Lloyd and The Jamie Lloyd Company return with Harold Pinter’s enigmatic masterpiece, The Homecoming, in the 50th anniversary year of the multi award-winning modern classic. … Continue reading
BBC Radio 2 Chris Evans Breakfast Show 7 Aug 2015 John chats to Chris about his current play Three Days in The Country at the National Theatre, plus listen to Magic Alex’s ‘Super KK’ intro, then a question from a listener on whether John ever worked in a dairy in Salisbury, followed by John and Rory’s Hamlet … Continue reading
BBC Radio 5 live Afternoon Edition 6 Aug 2015 Sarah Brett and Dan Walker talk with John Simm on his new play Three Days in the Country at the National Theatre, his career and music with his band Magic Alex, how he’s more sedate than in his “Human Traffic” days in the 1990s, plus escaping … Continue reading
BBC Radio 6 – Radcliffe and Maconie, John Simm Radcliffe and Maconie 6 Aug 2015 Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie are joined by Royal Television Society Award-winning actor John Simm, to talk about Three Days in the Country, a new play he’s in at The National Theatre in London which also stars actor (League of … Continue reading
The Telegraph Chris Bennion 13 July 2015 Turgenev’s Three Days in the Country, starring Simm and Gatiss, opens on the Lyttleton stage at the National Theatre London on 28th July (Previews from 21 July). Here John Simm (Olivier-award winner [sic] and star of Doctor Who and Life on Mars) and Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, The League of Gentlemen) … Continue reading
The Guardian Katie Forster 31 May 2015 Echo and the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch and actor John Simm were each other’s heroes before they met. Now they enjoy a creative – and boozy – friendship HIS STORY Ian McCulloch, 56, musician I first met John after a Bunnymen gig in Kilburn in 1997. I’d seen him … Continue reading
National Theatre Three Days in the Country by Patrick Marber, after Turgenev 21 Jul 2015 – 21 Oct 2015 Dates and Buy Tickets Summer love. Russia. A beautiful country estate. The mid-nineteenth century. A handsome new tutor brings reckless, romantic desire to an eccentric household. Over three days one summer the young and the old will … Continue reading
Sky Movies HD 25 Sep 2014 John Simm introduces his Sky Movies Playlist, picking classics like Taxi Driver and Once Upon A Time In The West. See his full list of choices here: Watch John Simm’s Playlist Continue reading
BBC Radio 3 Anne McElvoy Broadcast 9 May 2013 In Night Waves this evening, presenter Anne McElvoy applies herself to a masterpiece of British theatre, talking to Simon Russell Beale and John Simm about Pinter’s early tragicomedy, The Hothouse. (00:16:19) Listen to interview and an impromptu example scene by John Simm and Simon Russell Beale … Continue reading
Red Carpet News TV Russell Nelson 9 May 2013 John Simm & Director Jamie Lloyd Interview – The Hothouse Opening Night: The Hothouse runs at Trafalgar Studios, Whitehall, from Saturday 4th May until Saturday 3rd August. Tickets can be purchased online or direct from Trafalgar Studios box office. You can follow The Hothouse on Twitter. Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 John Wilson 10 May 2013 Harold Pinter’s The Hothouse is in a rare revival on the London stage, starring John Simm and Simon Russell Beale. Writer Iain Sinclair delivers his verdict on the play about a bureaucratic mental institution run by a sadist. (00:06:05) Listen to scene clip with John Simm as … Continue reading
The Hollywood News 9 Apr 2013 Jazmine Sky Bradley The Hothouse is part of an exciting season of work for Trafalgar Transformed, a joint initiative between director Jamie Lloyd (Donmar’s Passion, Broadway’s Cyrano de Bergerac, the National Theatre’s She Stoops to Conquer, Royal Court’s The Pride) and Howard Pinter. It comes hot on the heels of the critically acclaimed and sold … Continue reading
Soda Pictures Release Date: 25 March 2013 Available at Amazon.co.uk or Play.com This potent film from Michael Winterbottom (The Trip, 24 Hour Party People, A Cock and Bull Story) is a story of survival and love, a celebration of the small pleasures of everyday life. The father Ian (John Simm – Life On Mars, Doctor Who) is … Continue reading
Official London Theatre Matthew Amer 15 Mar 2013 Mad Dogs star John Simm will return to the London stage later this year when he teams up with Simon Russell Beale for Harold Pinter’s The Hothouse. The tale of unchecked power will be the second in director Jamie Lloyd’s Trafalgar Transformed season at the Trafalgar Studio … Continue reading
Preview: The Village + Q&A BAFTA Mon 11 March at 6.30pm Venue: Princess Anne Theatre, BAFTA Followed by a Q&A with John Simm, Maxine Peake, Peter Moffat and John Griffin Written by Peter Moffat, The Village is an epic drama series starring Maxine Peake and John Simm, charting the life and turbulent times of one English village … Continue reading
Curzon Cinemas NBCQ: Everyday / Q&A Shirley Henderson and Filmmakers 6.10pm 21 January 2013 Renoir Cinema Ticket pricing and more info at Curzon Cinemas. Administrator Note: Curzon Cinemas has confirmed Shirley Henderson’s attendance. Other guests (ie., John Simm) are not definite or are still to be confirmed. Everyday tells the story of Ian (John Simm) … Continue reading
Barbican Centre Everyday + ScreenTalk with Michael Winterbottom 8.45pm 17 January 2013 Cinema 2 (enter via Beech St) Ticket pricing and more info at Barbican.org.uk We are delighted to be joined by director Michael Winterbottom for this special ScreenTalk, where he will be discussing his new film, Everyday, with writer Hannah Patterson. Filmed over a … Continue reading
The Times 9 Nov 2012 Ben Machell Everyday is on Channel 4, Nov 15 (9pm) John Simm talks about his new role in Michael Winterbottom’s brilliant film Everyday, and why he thinks people don’t notice him. The screenwriter Paul Abbott once told John Simm that he would never be considered a big star because, on screen, … Continue reading
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