Last update 3 May Feb 2023
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Updates to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the 2011 remake of a Swedish film and Stieg Larsson's novel by David Fincher with Daniel Craig (taking time off from James Bond) and Rooney Mara. Journalist, Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara) investigate a disappearance years ago. A classy thriller which becomes darker as the film progresses.
Steven Berkoff plays Dirch Frode, an intermediary who introduces Blomkvist to the wealthy Henrik Vanger. A professional supporting role carried out convincingly.
Click here (near bottom of page)
.Uncertain Kingdom: Ernie added
The compilation film Uncertain Kingdom. Steven Berkoff appears in early. Click here.
Creation Stories added
Updates to A Season of Giants
The page on television mini-series A Season of Giants is updated. Steven Berkoff plays Savonarola, a role he would reprise in The Borgias.
Above Leonardo da Vinci tries manned flight.
The update is here.
Steven Berkoff "The Catholic Church must apologise to Jews for its sins"
An article by
Steven in The Jewish Chronicle, 8 Sept 2022.
"As heartfelt public
apologies are made for the crimes of slavery, it would be very welcome
if the Catholic Church said sorry for the hideous atrocities perpetrated
against the Jews".
"There is very little understanding of the
blood libel, a filthy lie promulgated largely by the Catholic church.
And there is also an unfortunate ignorance of Jewish ritual and Jewish
law. We actually get rid of blood. The idea that Jews are obsessed with
it was a projection of their own narrow-minded interpretation… In the
following century, having milked the Jews for years, Edward I expelled
them. And it was in England, of course, where Jews first had to suffer
the ignominy of wearing a badge of identification”.
For the full
article click here.
Updates to Strippers vs Werewolves
The section on the film Strippers vs Werewolves has been updated.
"It does not end well for Berkoff, he appears after six minutes and thankfully after nine he is dead - was it the strippers or the werewolves? Do we care? Not the best three minutes of his acting career".
The details are here.
Steven Berkoff has a supporting role in The Prizefighter, released on Amazon Prime from 22 Jul 2022. Russell Crowe and Matt Hookings take the lead roles.
"In 1800 Jem Belcher became the youngest ever world boxing champion. Belcher, played by Matt Hookings, dominated his early fights with his unique skill, speed, and scientific approach and soon became Champion of England, a natural talent oozing with charm, style, and grace. After a life-changing accident risked ending his career forever, he begins a long, grueling road to recovery which eventually sees him compete in a death-defying standoff – known only as The Forgotten Fight of the Century – to reclaim his title once and for all as England’s youngest boxing champion".
Steven on recent events in Ukraine.
As Russian leader Vladimir Putin appears to be playing from the Hitler playbook one cannot be more acutely aware of such ‘gangster’ politics than Bertolt Brecht in his formidable play ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’, 1941, when in the final lines he writes;
“If only we could act instead of talking,
We wouldn’t always end
up on our arse…..
Don’t yet rejoice in his defeat you men
Although
the world stood up and stopped the bastard
The bitch that brought him
is in heat again!”
It is on facebook here.
Brigh
It is released on digital channels (not sure which). Images from the trailer.
You can get Steven to record a personalised message for you. Details are here.
There is now a DVD of a live performance of Berkoff's play Six Actors in Search of a Director, with Berkoff directing but not acting.
Recent work by Berkoff in films and television include the television series The Vikings.
Too late, you missed it
Harry's Christmas in London, UK
Harry’s Christmas is on at the Kings Head Theatre in London from 6- 24 Dec 2022.
"This portrait of loneliness and isolation confronts the huge, often unspoken issues that affect many people for whom the end of December, rather than being a festive season, is a time when emotional pressures are at their highest". This production is in aid of CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably).
The play is performed by Stephen Smith, the director is Scott Le Crass and the Sound Designer and Composer is Julian Starr.
The Kings Head Theatre website is
here.
Brighton on London Live television
Brighton will be shown on London Live television on 26 Feb 2023.
An Evening with Steven Berkoff – They Shall
Not Pass: The Battle of Cable Street followed by a discussion with
Berkoff.
In is at the Princess Alexandra Auditorium in Yarm,
North Yorkshire on 20 Sept 2022. More details on the theatre
website click
here.
Threedumb Theatre present two one-man Berkoff plays, Dog and Actor from 4-26 Aug 2022.
"Two hilarious and explosive plays written by Steven Berkoff, performed back-to-back by the same actor. Dog follows a day in the life of a racist football hooligan and his beloved pit bull terrier Roy, who changes his life. Actor is a spoken-word monologue which delves into the heart of the acting industry, humorously and poignantly portraying the trying life of a struggling artist. Without the use of any set or props, Dog / Actor presents a masterclass in physical theatre and comedic storytelling, promising a thrilling theatrical experience".
The venue is Greenside @ Infirmary Street - Olive Studio in Edinburgh. For more details click here.
A double bill of one act plays by Steven
Berkoff and Caryl Churchill presented by Potomac Theatre Project. Berkoff's play
is Lunch in its New York premiere directed by Richard Romagnoli. The two actors are Bill Army and Jackie
Sanders.
"A
woman and man, (ostensibly) strangers, engage in a provocative encounter
that forces them to recognise their loneliness".
The Caryl
Churchill plays are Hot Fudge and Here We Go.
The plays are on
from 6 - 31 Jul 2022 at the Atlantic Theater - Stage 2. For
more details click
here.
Steven Berkoff's one-man show They Shall Not Pass: The Battle of Cable Street in the Princess Alexandra Auditorium in Yarm on 18 May 2022. The show if followed by a Q&A session.
"A performance of Steven's most recent one
man play, They Shall Not Pass: The Battle of Cable Street, followed by a
Q&A session with Steven hosted by actor and director Rob Clilverd.
October, 1936. Three thousand fascists, led by Oswald Mosley, march on
Cable Street in the heart of the Jewish East End. Six thousand
Metropolitan Police officers are on hand to defend them. But London’s
socialists, trade unionists, immigrants and dock workers are ready to
meet the fascists – and their message is clear and united: “They shall
not pass."
For more details click here.”
Greenwich Theatre in London are staging a revival of Berkoff's The Secret Love Life of Ophelia. Helen Mirren will play Gertrude and the roles of Hamlet and Ophelia, told in letters to each other, will be performed by 39 actors each reading a letter, giving each actor the chance to play Hamlet or Ophelia.
I saw the original production (in a theatre) and it is highly recommended.
It is on 31 Jul- 14 Aug 2020 on the Greenwich Theatre's free YouTube site.
https://greenwichtheatre.org.uk/
