Friday, February 19, 2010
Watch Abi Titmuss talking to Lorraine on GMTV on 17th February about her acting career & StageFright
Watch Abi Titmuss talking to Lorraine on GMTV on 17th February about her acting career & StageFright
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Excellent review of the play in International Life a super online magazine
Stage Fright - Review |
photography by lubo
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Stage Fright reviewed in The Stage by Evelyn Curlet - Onwards and Upwards!!
Stage Fright
Charles, a lovelorn actor, and Peter, a penniless writer, hatch a plan to solve their respective woes. Peter will pen a play, funded by Charles, who will star in it alongside an aspiring actress he is smitten with. When it emerges that aspiring actress Geraldine has burning ambitions of her own, the stage is set for a furious battle of wills.Lynn Howes’ sharp script satirises celebrity and success, possessing enough neat twists and witty lines to keep the audience engaged throughout, while Emma Taylor directs the assured cast on a simple set. .............................
Read the full article on: http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/27145/stage-fright
Monday, February 8, 2010
Stage Fright - Sunday Mirror - Abi Titmuss by Adam Lee-Potter
Abi Titmuss goes from Lads' mag pin-up to award-winning actress
EXCLUSIVE by Adam Lee-Potter 7/02/2010
Abi Titmuss is nothing if not a mistress of reinvention. The sexy girl-next-door who shed her nurse’s uniform to romp in a sex video before emerging as the nation’s favourite glamour girl has taken on yet another role. And it might just be her most convincing yet.
The one-time good-time girl is now a serious actress, winning a Best West End Debut award for her performance as a prostitute in Arthur Miller’s Two Way Mirror four years ago.
The woman once voted the seventh sexiest in the world by lads’ mag FHM has been much in demand, despite keeping her clothes on. Not that she wasn’t asked. “A lot of plays, I’d read the script and it was a case of ‘scene one, Abi’s clothes fall off’. That’s why I didn’t do them.
“I wouldn’t say no to sexy scenes if they felt right. I certainly don’t intend to do topless in a film. But if Steven Spielberg knocked, I’d think about it,” she jokes.
The model, who has so far earned more than £1million – and bought four houses – by taking her clothes off for a top rate of £30,000 a day, is a smart cookie.
Today she is the girl next door again. Chatty, open and the owner, still, of a staff nurse’s handshake that could crack walnuts. She is impossible to dislike.
She is the picture of innocence and frank about her rise to fame. “I’m so grateful to the newspapers. Really I am. They made me.” ...........................
...... “I want longevity,” she says. “Even if it takes me until Helen Mirren’s age to win an Oscar, that’s fine.” She might just achieve her goal.
She is utterly convincing in her new play, Stage Fright, at London’s Canal Cafe Theatre, playing a manipulative man-eating actress ............
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/02/07/abi-titmuss-goes-from-lads-mag-pin-up-to-award-winning-actress-115875-22023738/
Stage Fright - The British Theatre Guide - Review by John Thaxter (2010)
Stage Fright
By Lynn HowesCanal Cafe Theatre, Little Venice, London
Review by John Thaxter (2010)
The publicity for this amusing 90 minute comedy describes Lynn Howes’ new play as both a ‘savagely funny satire’ on the cult of celebrity in the theatre and a ‘thought-provoking tragicomedy’.
Take your pick of the epithets. What really happens is an ingenious battle of wits between a hard-up playwright Peter, his actor-laddie friend Charles, bursting with bonhomie and testosterone, and Geraldine, an ambitious blonde actress taking them both for a ruthless ride in her search for fame and the bright lights of the West End.
I hope it’s not a plot spoiler to hint that all three characters succeed professionally if not quite as they had planned. But I shall not reveal whether Charles, performed with boundless energy and wit by Sion Tudor-Owen, finally gets his eager hands on the delectable Geraldine.
She is played with dazzling attack and total conviction by rising theatre star Abi Titmuss in a role that could almost be a tongue in cheek self-portrait.
Alex Barclay’s Peter, an actor-dramatist determined to direct his own play, is the man in the middle: a stooge to his friend Charles and a fall-guy for Geraldine to manipulate when she decrees that his latest crime thriller should be relocated from icebound Russia to a sunny climate so she can shed a few clothes and enjoy the heat.
This results in a series of spirited rehearsal scenes as characters are handed on from one actor to another in what eventually becomes the thespian equivalent of a farcical pass the parcel, each in turn ending up as the victim of Peter’s abduction plot.
This is Lynn Howes’ fourth and most ambitious play to date, revealing her skill in building a situation from amusing conversational exchanges, especially in the opening scene when her two male characters are explored with impressive economy - not a word wasted.
Praise is also due to artistic director Emma Taylor, who loves staging three-handers and here directs with an understanding hand that allows each of her three actors to open out their roles through their own very individual performing styles.
Copied from http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/stagefright-rev.htm
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Stage Fright Review 5 Stars John Phillip remotegoat
Review of Stage Fright
 | "Not Just a Pretty Face" by John Phillips for remotegoat on 04/02/10 |
Read on ...... http://www.remotegoat.co.uk/review_view.php?uid=4831
Fringe Report Review 3/2/2010 Stage Fright Verdict:: Perky comedy drama
London - Canal Café Theatre - 2-20 February 2010 - 19:30 (1:20)
Peter (Alex Barclay) is a playwright, mainly would-be, with a history of duff romances in his private life. Charles (Sion Tudor Owen) is an out-of-date actor, his moderate successes long gone by. The two men have quarreled working together on a past project. Now Charles has a plan. He's trying to have sex with his much younger new object of desire Geraldine (Abi Titmuss). He reckons that a play written by Peter for him and Geraldine will (a) achieve sexual intercourse and (b) make him a star, both interrelated......... ...... It's a good-looking cast with clever contrasts in physical size, well-suited to the comedy of the script. Sion Tudor Owen delivers an aimably podgy and medium-height Charles capable of huge fits of rage and extreme expression alongside Charles's more reflective moments. Alex Barclay's tall lanky Peter goes well physically with Charles as a kind of end-of-pier comic couple, and his Peter is a believable character building from manic reasonableness to raw mania. Abi Titmuss brings out Geraldine's manipulative essence. She works the strands of Geraldine into the delivery of a flesh-and-blood complex person, a credible catalyst driving the play's switchback turns.
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