Michael Coveney
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- Aug 27, 2026
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Tim Curry obituary (opens the original)
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Actor and singer best known for his roles in The Rocky Horror Show and the 1990 Stephen King TV miniseries It In June 1973, I went to the Royal Court to see one of Edward Bond’s best plays, The Sea. On my way out, I met a colleague who said he had a spare ticket for something called The Rocky Horror Show in the Court’s studio space, the Theatre Upstairs, starting at around 10.30pm. We had no idea what this was going to be about. There was a gantry rigged above us and, astonishingly, suddenly, cr
Phyllida Law obituary (opens the original)
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Actor with a long career in theatre and on television who was known for the subtle quality of her work Although she was perhaps best known as the mother of two outstanding actors, Emma and Sophie Thompson, Phyllida Law, who has died aged 94, was supremely gifted herself – as an actor, costume designer and writer. She was not averse to appearing with either daughter: with Emma in her scabrously funny movie Nanny McPhee (2005); and with Sophie in Douglas McGrath’s fine television film of Jane Aust
Peter Gill obituary (opens the original)
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Acclaimed playwright and director whose reputation was forged at the Royal Court theatre in London Peter Gill, who has died aged 86, was a rarity in British theatre in being an accomplished director of his own plays; he wrote them, you felt, mainly so that he could also direct them and thus maintain the vision and the poetry of his writing in their physical manifestation. His reputation as a meticulous realist with unimpeachable good taste in casting was forged at the Royal Court in London where
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