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Samuel West

September 2023

  • Patsy Ferran as Eliza Doolittle and Bertie Carvel as Henry Higgins either side of a chart that Carvel points to with a stick, in Pygmalion at the Old Vic.

    The week in theatre: Pygmalion; King Stakh’s Wild Hunt; It’s Headed Straight Towards Us – review

    Patsy Ferran and Bertie Carvel are word-perfect in Richard Jones’s first-rate Shaw revival; Belarus Free Theatre fuse fairytale and reality; and two has-been actors hole up in a trailer in Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer’s new comedy

September 2022

  • 4- The Book of Water di Michel van der Aa : Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia © Andrea Avezzù

    Venice Biennale Musica review – things old, new, borrowed and bleurgh

    The contemporary music strand of the Italian festival brought a typically elegant and thoughtful music theatre work by Michel van der Aa; less successful was Yvette Janine Jackson’s ‘radio opera’ Left Behind

January 2022

  • Daniel Craig and Michael Gambon in A Number

    Sons, fathers and clones: Caryl Churchill’s A Number – in pictures

    A father is confronted by three sons – two of whom are clones of the first – in Churchill’s classic play, which has a 20th-anniversary revival at the Old Vic this month

March 2021

  • English actor and theatre director, Samuel West in the garden of his London home. December 2020

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Samuel West: 'On screen I mostly play evil members of the establishment or Victorian perverts'

    The actor on his pandemic poetry jukebox, life lessons of the Moomins, the pros and cons of Twitter, and how to reboot regional theatre

February 2021

  • Gatecrash

    Gatecrash review – opaque auto-accident drama

    A car crash provokes a torrent of toxic masculinity, but this strange film is neither surreal nor psychologically insightful enough

October 2020

  • Samuel West

    The Q&A
    Samuel West: ‘My best kiss? Julia Roberts in Notting Hill, but they cut it’

  • Dora Bryan (Meg) in The Birthday Party, 1994

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    Pause for the camera: the best of Harold Pinter – in pictures

August 2020

  • Kristin Scott Thomas and Chiwetel Ejiofor in The Seagull

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    Seagulls and samovars: the best of Chekhov, with Dench, McKellen and more – in pictures

    In a new series, we open up Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton’s archive of stage photos. This week: Anton Chekhov productions with a cast including the Redgraves, Dominic West and Chiwetel Ejiofor

March 2020

  • Tamara Rojo performs with the English National Ballet at Sadler’s Wells in 2017.

    Leading arts figures demand clarity over compensation for coronavirus closures

    As majority of UK’s theatres close, industry bodies say government’s lack of outright ban on visiting venues leaves them unable to claim on insurance

November 2018

  • Laura Wade

    Laura Wade: ‘Theatre has something important to offer in these dark times’

  • Grace Molony as Emma Watson, Louise Ford as Laura in THE WATSONS by Laura Wade at Chichester Festival Theatre

    The Watsons review – Austen heroine brought stunningly back to life

April 2018

  • Samuel West and Romola Garai in Ella Hickson’s divisive new play The Writer.

    The week in theatre: The Writer; Absolute Hell – review

  • The Writer at the Almeida. Romola Garai. Photo credit Manuel Harlan (11)

    The Writer review – Romola Garai blazes into the battlefield of desire

September 2017

  • ‘I’ll put on my pussycat face’ … Sir Peter Hall.

    'Visionary, master diplomat – and absolute smoothie': stars pay tribute to Peter Hall

    He gave Peter Brook his big break, helped Elaine Paige conquer her fear, showed Griff Rhys Jones the joy of farce and dazzled a teenage Samuel West. They celebrate the great director who has died aged 86

June 2017

  • JULIUS CEASER by Shakespeare, , Writer - William Shakespeare, Director - Robert Hastie, Designer - Ben Stones, The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 2017, Credit: Johan Persson/

    Julius Caesar review – a powerful examination of rhetoric

    Shakespeare is rooted in our era of fake news in artistic director Robert Hastie’s outstanding first production for the Crucible

May 2017

  • Samuel West, right, as Brutus in Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar review – political thriller chimes with rise of populism

    Robert Hastie’s electric staging, with Jonathan Hyde and Samuel West, offers a resonant take on the manipulative power of rhetoric


June 2016

  • Rebecca Johnson and Samuel West in Present Laughter

    Present Laughter review – Coward revival glosses over charmless snobbery

    Sparkling bons mots and Samuel West’s fine performance as a self-obsessed matinee idol fail to disguise the deep unpleasantness of this farce

February 2016

  • Samuel West

    Shakespeare solos
    Samuel West as Henry V: 'Upon the king' – video

    Samuel West speaks Henry V’s soliloquy on the night before battle, in which he reflects upon the public’s expectations of the king

October 2015

  • Anna Chancellor and Samuel West in The Seagull

    Young Chekhov: The Birth of a Genius review – an exhilarating marathon

  • Anna Chancellor as Irina Arkadina and Samuel West as Boris Trigorin in The Seagull

    Young Chekhov: The Birth of a Genius review – a masterly triple bill

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