Simon Russell Beale

Thanks for the info!


BTW, the NT performance is now available to book www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/shakespeare-every-day-year-allie-esiri

Blimey, this thread took some finding!

I caught the end of an interview with SRB on the World Service last night.

While he's been 'resting' over the last nine months, he's moved house, bought a piano, rediscovered the interest in cooking he had in his 20s and started writing his memoirs...but stopped when he decided his life wasn't interesting enough.

He thinks The Lehman Trilogy may re-open on Broadway towards the far end of 2021.

Although a repeat, the TV programme he fronted on sacred Christmas music was also repeated last week:

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wvdcj

In response to a request elsewhere here are the 35 productions with Simon R-B that I have seen. Plenty of others I didn't see including Richard-III, Restoration, Hamlet, Humble Boy, Jumpers, Lehman Trilogy etc. etc.  

Thank you very much, Jan. Fascinating. I'll have questions, in due course, if that's all right?

I'll do whatever the consensus is, but when I saw the new thread I could think of no other actor, male or female, who is as well known by their initials as they are by their full name. (No doubt dozens of examples will now be posted!)

Or it could just be merged with theatreboard.co.uk/thread/7258/simon-russell-beale-sir

But it made you read the thread didn’t it. I tend not to give his full name in case I spell it wrongly or put the hyphen in the wrong place.

Here's my list, none of the early ones but quite a few not on Jan's list! Total 29 (32 incl.repeats)
King Lear
Battle Royal
Candide
Cherry Orchard, The (x2)
Collaborators
Deathtrap
Hot House, The
Humble Boy
Julius Caesar
Jumpers
London Assurance
Money
Mr Foote's other Leg
Much ado about nothing
Privates on Parade
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead
Tempest, The (x2)
Temple
The Alchemist
The Life of Galileo
Timon of Athens
Uncle Vanya
Winter's Tale, The
Tempest, The
Richard II
Young Marx
Bach & Sons
John Gabriel Borkman
Lehmann Trilogy (x2)

Ones that I've always regretted missing: Hamlet and The Philanthropist.

Merged 

Alan Rickman Diaries:
7 February
7.15 Volpone at the National. Gambon magnificent and so wicked. Doubtful that [Ben] Jonson called one of the servants Kevin . . . The production leaves you wanting – the set spins, the language flings itself around, the acting is (mostly) brave but there is a general air of UNEXPLORED. Simon Russell Beale has a wonderfully pitched reading. I wish he would find different mouth-shapes

20 July
7.30 Broadcasting House. Dinner . . . What to say about this? Were we set decoration? Will any of it be of use? Michael Frayn the only real intellectual heavyweight. Richard Eyre v. good as was Jonathan.13 Harvey G[oldsmith] – opinionated. Simon Russell Beale & I hoping same. Simon Curtis [film director] and Elizabeth14 think it’s funny to tell stories of me in silk pyjamas during the [LA] earthquake

15 May
8 Jumpers.
Stoppard bores me rigid again. Essie Davis gives it the star treatment. Simon [Russell Beale] . . . I wish someone would tell him not to be so lovable. It’s like he needs a smack rather than a director.

Yes, of course you are right about Young Marx, apols (I think I assumed as it was at the Bridge, he must have been in it!)
Very impressed with your list. I saw the ballet on TV (I know that doesn't count). My friend saw him in Spamalot, on one occasion we saw him at the theatre, I was too tongue-tied but she piped up with "I loved you in Spamalot". I was mortified but he seemed delighted!
Also seen him in lots of readings etc, particularly remember the complete Sonnets and as Debussy with Lucy Parham.

Looking at my list there’s not that many where he was anything less than good but also very few that I thought he was really exceptional in. I’ve seen a lot of those roles done better. I thought he was absolutely at his best in London Assurance - no one could have been better.