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MARK LEIPACHER
Sam Mendes and Simon Russell Beale
A Working Partnership
Foreword by Kevin Spacey
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Catching the Light copyright Mark Leipacher 2011
Foreword copyright Kevin Spacey 2011
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Review of Twelfth Night by B.D. Phillips, Wall Street Journal, copyright 2011 by DOW JONES & COMPANY, INC.. Reproduced with permission of DOW JONES & COMPANY, INC. in the format Textbook via Copyright Clearance Center. Extracts from Brian Friels version of Uncle Vanya are reproduced by kind permission of the author and The Gallery Press, www.gallerypress.com. Extract from The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov in a new version by Tom Stoppard ( Tom Stoppard 2009), published by Faber & Faber, is printed by permission of United Agents (www.unitedagents.co.uk) on behalf of Tom Stoppard.
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Sam Mendes by Brigitte Lacombe
Simon Russell Beale by Charlie Carter
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Simon Russell Beales theatre credits include: for the NT, London Assurance, Major Barbara, Much Ado About Nothing, The Life of Galileo, The Alchemist, Jumpers (also US, Tony Award nomination for Best Actor), Humble Boy, Hamlet (also US, Evening Standard Award for Best Actor, Critics Circle Award for Best Shakespearean Performance, Boston Critics Associate Award for Outstanding Actor in a Large Company), Battle Royal, Candide (Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical), Summerfolk, Money, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Volpone (Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor); for the RSC, King Lear, Ghosts, Edward II, The Seagull, The Man of Mode, Restoration; for the Donmar, The Philanthropist (Evening Standard and Critics Circle Awards for Best Actor). Other theatre includes Monty Pythons Spamalot (West End and Broadway); Julius Caesar (Barbican and International Tour), Alice in Wonderland (Royal Opera House). Television includes Spooks (BBC), A Dance to the Music of Time (Royal Television Society and BAFTA Awards for Best Actor) and Persuasion. He is an associate of the National Theatre and an associate artist of the RSC.
Sam Mendes was appointed the Artistic Director of the Minerva, Chichester in 1989 and in 1992 he founded the Donmar Warehouse where he was Artistic Director until 2002. There he directed Assassins (Olivier and Evening Standard Awards), Translations, Cabaret, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Glass Menagerie (Olivier Award), Company (Olivier Award), Habeas Corpus, The Front Page, The Blue Room, To The Green Fields Beyond. Other credits include: for the NT, The Sea, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Evening Standard Award), The Birthday Party; for the RSC, The Alchemist; in the West End, The Cherry Orchard (Critics Circle Award), The Plough and the Stars, Kean, London Assurance and Oliver!; for the Bridge Company As You Like It, The Tempest, Richard III. Theatre on Broadway includes, as Producer, The Real Thing, Take Me Out (Tony Awards), Shrek: The Musical; as Director, The Blue Room, Gypsy, The Vertical Hour, Cabaret (Tony Award). Film includes American Beauty (Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture, Golden Globe Award, Directors Guild of America Award), Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Away We Go and Bond 23. He is the recipient of a Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award and an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Theatre. He was awarded a CBE in 2000.
Sam and Simons collaborations include, for the RSC: Troilus and Cressida, Richard III (also UK tour), The Tempest; for the NT: Othello (also international tour) and the forthcoming King Lear; for the Donmar: Uncle Vanya, Twelfth Night (also BAM, Evening Standard Awards, Olivier Awards, Critics Circle Award, Obie Award); for the Bridge Project: The Cherry Orchard, The Winters Tale.
A bout a decade ago I called Sam to tell him that I was going to be moving to London to start a theatre company at the Old Vic because I figured that if anybody could talk me out of it, it would be Sam. At that point, he was two years away from leaving his ten-year stay at the Donmar and I was making a ten-year commitment so I thought Id pump him for information and ask him what I should be looking for and anticipating in running a building, all of which he was very helpful with.
Then, naturally, as any Artistic Director would, I began to woo Sam about coming to do something with us. Those conversations extended themselves for a number of years, in emails and on the phone, in breakfasts in New York and lunches in London. Those discussions led us to the realisation that neither of us was particularly satisfied with the idea that wed just do one play with each other and then go away. So we began to plan something that was bigger and more long lasting.
What I didnt know was that Joe Melillo at the Brooklyn Academy of Music was also wooing Sam. They had a great relationship because many Donmar productions, including the ones with Simon, had travelled to BAM. One day in New York, about five or six years ago now, Sam proposed doing something between the Old Vic and BAM; this ultimately turned into The Bridge Project.
Through this initiative Sam wanted to achieve several goals: first of all to show that you could bring British and American actors together to do Shakespeare and destroy the myth that it wouldnt work. Secondly to tackle big, epic, classical work with great actors on a large scale. To commit to five productions over three years with a company that exists both at BAM and the Old Vic its homes but that travels the world, seemed like a remarkable commitment on Sams part. Hed spent a number of years in New York and hed done a number of films but he felt incredibly inspired and challenged by this new company.
Simons name was mentioned very early on in the process. Sam and Simon have a longstanding relationship and theyve worked together many times. We were incredibly pleased that Simon came on board and I think that Simons involvement was one of the reasons that the other actors came on board: Sinead Cusack and Ethan Hawke and a really incredible company. Simon has that particular core that pocket of energy that the greats have on stage. Its very difficult to take your eyes off him because hes such a commanding presence. Yet, some of the moments that are most memorable are the quiet moments: the moments of reflection.
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