December 2011
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Watchevenstar:
one of my favourite things in the world.
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Anonymous asked: Hallo there,
I want to ask you - do you have the photo from "10 Rillington Place" with young smiling John Hurt without a hat in a specific laced black t-shirt with a ruff? I'm not allowed to put a link there, but I hope you'll understand which one I mean... I found a collection of 8 posters and only every one is really small (23x30cm). It's so hard to find it - in a...
I want to ask you - do you have the photo from "10 Rillington Place" with young smiling John Hurt without a hat in a specific laced black t-shirt with a ruff? I'm not allowed to put a link there, but I hope you'll understand which one I mean... I found a collection of 8 posters and only every one is really small (23x30cm). It's so hard to find it - in a...
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"Scandal" Showing and Q&A with John Hurt →
Showing tonight at @BAMcinematek
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Variety Reviews: Krapp's Last Tape →
Krapp’s Last Tape
(BAM Harvey Theater; 897 seats; $65 top)
By Marilyn Stasio
John Hurt in ‘Krapp’s Last Tape.’
A presentation by the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival of the Gate Theater Dublin production of a play in one act by Samuel Beckett. Directed by Michael Colgan.
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la gheisha et le chevalier: john hurt. →
loieloie:
thanks to the wonder that is johnvhurt, i heard about john hurt’s performances at BAM of beckett’s krapp’s last tape this month. and tonight, ladies and gentlemen…
this happened.
when i was younger i saw the spice girls in concert. even before they stepped out on stage (well,…
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What’s in a Name? For an Actor, Start With His... →
By SARAH MASLIN NIR
Published: December 9, 2011
Lantern-bearers led the crowd through the darkened streets of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, on Tuesday night to a lavish dinner after a performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Gala.
It was opening night for Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape,” a terrifically unsettling one-man show starring John Hurt, known for his craggy,...
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John Hurt is masterful in ‘Last Tape’ →
By Jennifer Farrar THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Is it better to have had ambitions and failed at them, then never to have tried at all? Better to have made definitive choices, even if time has proven them wrongheaded? With minutely calibrated facial expressions, John Hurt masterfully invigorates his portrayal of a lonely, cranky old writer regretfully contemplating...
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Gilbert Adair, acclaimed film critic and novelist,... →
Director Richard Kwietniowski, John Hurt and Gilbert Adair
Prolific journalist and author whose novels were often adapted for the big screen, has died.
Adair wrote “Love and Death on Long Island”.
The Guardian has printed two additional pieces on Adair:
Gilbert Adair: A Man of Letters for the Cinema Age
Gilbert Adair Obituary
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Unspooling Memories From the Soul on a Machine →
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
A command of the speaking power of silence is almost a prerequisite for performing the plays of Samuel Beckett. This is particularly true of his sparer works, in which the Irish-born playwright reduced his theatrical means to a minimum, the better to concentrate his ideas and underscore the echoing emptiness that is forever threatening to swallow his characters whole.
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Video: John Hurt in 'Krapp's Last Tape' →
John Hurt in Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape,” now at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The video was recorded by the Shakespeare Theater Company during the show’s run in Washington.
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John Hurt on His New York Stage Debut, Defending... →
This week, John Hurt opened Krapp’s Last Tape, the Samuel Beckett classic, at BAM’s Harvey Theater. He plays the title character, a 69-year-old man who celebrates his birthday by looking back at a particular moment in his life. At 71 himself, Hurt has a lot of professional history to look back on, and we pressed him for some of it, like a mad airborne movie-set escape he once made with...
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Hurt’s so good at BAM →
By Frank Scheck
Could there be an actor more perfectly suited for Samuel Beckett’s works than John Hurt? Not only does his gaunt face and wiry hair recall the playwright, but he has the ravaged look of a man haunted by memories too painful to contemplate. And that’s exactly what transpires in the mesmerizing “Krapp’s Last Tape,” the Gate Theatre of Dublin’s essential production now playing...
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Theater: John Hurt and Cillian Murphy Go Solo In... →
By Michael Giltz
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Review: Krapp's Last Tape →
Gate Theatre Dublin at Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of BAM 2011 Next Wave Festival
Reviewed by David Sheward
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John Hurt Never Had Any Ambition, and Other Good... →
By Nick Pinkerton Wednesday, Dec 7 2011
One of the most accomplished (and most steadily-employed) English actors of his generation, John Hurt is known for his droll Quentin Crisp, I, Claudius’s godhead Caligula, and for vivid victim-in-pain performances including pleasure seeker-turned-courtroom-sacrifice Stephen Ward in 1989’s tabloid-trial thriller Scandal. Like Ward, Hurt was a...
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John Hurt's So Good in Excellent 'Krapp,' His New... →
The current revival of Krapp’s Last Tape, one of Samuel Beckett’s masterworks, clocks in at barely 55 minutes. Not a lot of time, but Beckett wasn’t one to beat around the bush.
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Scene Last Night: Steve Earle, Adam Max, John... →
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A Face to Match That Name →
Maybe it’s the pouched eyes or the deep furrows that stripe his forehead, apparent testament to years of worries and wounds and woes. Perhaps it’s the expression that suggests he’s been marked for execution rather than simply for an interview. Really, one glance in John Hurt’s direction is all it takes to appreciate the aptness of his last name.
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Podcast from WAMU-FM: The Diane Rehm Show
Actor...
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Theater Review: “Krapp’s Last Tape” at Shakespeare... →
Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece gets a definitive performance by British actor John Hurt and Ireland’s Gate Theatre. By Sophie Gilbert
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Hurt’s So Good: Krapp’s Last Tape, Reviewed →
The word with which Samuel Beckett once referred to the title character of his 1958 one-act Krapp’s Last Tape—wizened—does not begin to describe the spectacular parade of fissures and topographic formations that is the face of the actor John Hurt. He’s always looked like his name is a caption: John, hurt.
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John Hurt on the Diane Rehm Show →
John Hurt was a guest on NPR’s the Diane Rehm Show today (1 December 2011).
Click to listen (stream) HERE
Click for a transcript HERE
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The gentle authority of John Hurt in ‘Krapp’s Last... →
A review of “Krapp’s Last Tape” for The Washington Post by Peter Marks
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