Sam Mendes

But his name remained firmly on my cv for a long time. ' He continued to act at school - Eton - and university, and during that time performed with the National Youth Music Theatre. He secured an agent after his professional stage debut as...

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...we've been missing. Mendes also sees to it that his starry Anglo-American repertory company, including Ethan Hawke, Sinead Cusack, Simon Russell Beale and Sir Peter Hall's daughter Rebecca, never eclipse one another. Both plays are set in...

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...Road and snaffling an Oscar for The Reader. Indeed, Winslet and her partner, the director Sam Mendes, could easily be described as the "axis of evil" in this assault on stateside culture. Mendes is all over New York like a rash - a...

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...Vic's director, Kevin Spacey. Mendes has often directed Russell Beale, who is playing Shakespeare's Leontes and Chekhov's Lopakhin, and remains close to Spacey, the lead in his Oscar-winning American Beauty. "The Old Vic is a good match for...

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...who wrote: "All the world's a stage." Now the acclaimed British director Sam Mendes is determined to prove it is - by undertaking one of the most ambitious theatre projects ever. In an unprecedented partnership he has formed a...

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The performance is a production of The Bridge Project, a transatlantic cooperation between Mendes, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Old Vic in London, whose artistic director is Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey. The classic...

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...in Camden. Mendes's choice of plays, the disparity in language, the fusing of very different American and British stage acting techniques and the sheer profile of the Bridge Project make it a fascinating prospect. The intense...

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...tricked-up revival of Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard," the new company - co-produced by BAM, Kevin Spacey's Old Vic and Sam Mendes' Neal Street - is vindicating its audacity with an enchanted, extraordinarily lucid vision of...

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...came about because of an obsession. Melillo fell in love with Mendes' work when he imported several of the director's London productions, including Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. "Those became a legendary success...

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