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Glenda Jackson
Iain Fisher:
Glenda Jackson has won the Evening Standard theatre award for best actress. It was for her performance of King Lear (playing the king) in Shakespeare's play. The performances were here first time on stage for 25 years (in between she was a member of parliament).
If you every saw Glenda Jackson on stage she was magnificent, one of the all time great actresses.
Iain
Iain Fisher:
Glenda talking about her life on Sunday 5 March 2017 at the Cinema Museum London.
Iain Fisher:
Glenda campaigning to keep a local cinema open
www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/actress-glenda-jackson-backs-campaign-to-save-deptford-cinema-after-12000-tax-bill-a3303951.html
Iain Fisher:
Glenda Jackson on BBC Radio 3 talking about her life including with theatre director Peter Brook and of course on Ken.
She talks of a friendly argument with Ken on Shostakovich's symphony 5 which Ken dismisses and says the 4th is the best- he then gave her a pile of Shostakovich albums.
Glenda has to chose music for the program, with an interesting choice, all but one (Vaughan Williams) favourites of mine:
Igor Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
Ralph Vaughan Williams A London Symphony
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony no.5
John Adams “The Chairman Dances” from Nixon in China
Stevie Wonder You Haven't Done Nothing
Steve Reich Clapping Music
Cole Porter Love for Sale
The programme is here
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07h67w9?ns_mchannel=email&ns_source=inxmail_newsletter&ns_campaign=bbcradio3newsletter_radio__&ns_linkname=na&ns_fee=0
Iain Fisher:
The Guardian newspaper reports Glenda is acting again, initially on the radio in an adaptation of the 20-volume cycle Les Rougon-Macquart by Émile Zola. It will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2014.
And the papers view of her best roles:
Women in Love, 1969 (dir, Ken Russell)
Daring adaptation of DH Lawrence’s novel, a story of relationships in 1920s Britain for which her portrayal of a headstrong artist won her an Oscar.
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1971 (dir, Charles Jarrott)
With Vanessa Redgrave in the title role, Jackson gave an unforgettable portrayal of Elizabeth I, described by one critic as “perfectly shrewish”.
The Music Lovers, 1971 (dir, Ken Russell)
Jackson played the nymphomaniac wife of homosexual Russian composer Tchaikovsky (Richard Chamberlain) in an experimental biopic.
Sunday Bloody Sunday, 1971 (dir, John Schlesinger)
Jackson gave an Oscar-nominated performance as a woman who discovers that she shares her young lover with a middle-aged male doctor (Peter Finch).
A Touch of Class, 1973 (dir, Melvin Frank)
Romantic comedy about a love affair between two incompatible people. Gave an Oscar-winning performance as a designer, opposite George Segal as an American executive.
The article by Dalya Alberge on 12 Sept 2015 is here:
www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/sep/12/glenda-jackson-equality-nothings-changed-women-stage-roles
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