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Indira Varma

April 2024

  • Indira Varma

    The Q&A
    Indira Varma: ‘The worst thing anyone’s said to me? Go back to where you came from’

  • Shirley Henderson in The Trouble With Jessica

    The Trouble With Jessica review – Shirley Henderson leads satire on London liberals

March 2024

  • Behind the scenes with Sarah Jessica Parker as she prepares for her role as KAREN NASH / MURIEL TATE / NORMA HUBLEY in Plaza Suite at the Savoy Theatre, London. London. Photograph by David Levene 25/2/24. Additional processing by David McCoy, Guardian Imaging.

    Fake noses, lucky tokens and a bed of nails – Sarah Jessica Parker, Joseph Fiennes and other stars reveal their secret dressing room routines

    Whoever wins next month’s Olivier awards, global stars will continue to flock to the West End of London to give the stage their all. We take a peek behind the curtain …

December 2023

  • Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma in Macbeth at the Depot, Liverpool.

    The week in theatre: Macbeth; The House of Bernarda Alba – review

    Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma are magnetic murderers in Simon Godwin’s bleakly immersive warehouse production, while Harriet Walter commands the stage in Rebecca Frecknall’s stylish, if underheated Lorca

November 2023

  • Intensely delivered … Ralph Fiennes in Macbeth.

    Macbeth review – Ralph Fiennes’ monstrous monarch wages war in a warehouse

    Staged in a hangar-like venue strewn with the charred remnants of battle, Simon Godwin’s intelligent production puts violent conflict to the fore

October 2023

  • Philippa Perry photographed for the Observer magazine.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography

  • Indira Varma Hair and makeup: Justine Jenkins using et al. beauty

    Life on a plate
    Indira Varma: ‘I ate avocado and artichokes as a kid. That sounds so pretentious!’

April 2023

  • Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma in Macbeth.

    Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma to star in Macbeth staged in warehouses

    The production, directed by Simon Godwin, will open in Liverpool before heading to Edinburgh, London and Washington DC
  • Charlie Murphy and Richard Armitage in Obsession.

    TV review
    Obsession review – the actors in this erotic thriller all seem to need the toilet

    Presumably the odd facial expressions in this woeful drama are meant to say ‘barely controllable lust’. They actually say: ‘really regretting that bad oyster’
  • Emilia Clarke stars in The Seagull

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Emilia Clarke in The Seagull and more

    Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes a Big Night of Musicals, You Bury Me and James Earl Jones in King Lear

February 2023

  • Indira Varma.

    Indira Varma: ‘Dicking about is much more fun than being serious’

    She has won an Olivier, appeared in Game of Thrones, and will shortly star in the climate-consequences drama Extrapolations. The actor ponders ageing, sexism – and the benefits of being an ‘old hippy’

July 2022

  • Emilia Clarke, Indira Varma, Daniel Monks and Tom Rhys Harries in The Seagull.

    The week in theatre: The Seagull; The Southbury Child; Richard III

  • Soft and deliberately soporific … Emilia Clarke as Nina in The Seagull.

    The Seagull review – woodchip-walled Chekhov is hypnotic

June 2022

  • ‘The kindness of strangers is real’: Indira Varma

    This much I know
    Indira Varma: ‘I wanted to be a clown. Or David Attenborough’

    The actor, 48, on Star Wars, bubble baths, and doing the Spitting Image voice of Priti Patel

October 2020

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

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

    Revisit the work of one of Britain’s greatest playwrights in the month that he would have turned 90

September 2020

  • Michael Sheen in a performance of Faith Healer, streamed live and performed to an empty auditorium.

    Faith Healer review – Friel's spellbinder captures theatre's magic

    Michael Sheen, Indira Varma and David Threlfall are a superb trinity for Brian Friel’s powerful monologues
  • Indira Varma.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Indira Varma's cultural highlights

    The actor on Tove Jansson’s adult fiction and eclectic French radio
  • Michael Sheen will star in the ‘shimmering fable’.

    Lockdown culture
    Michael Sheen returns to stage in live-streamed Faith Healer

    Brian Friel drama promises ‘emotional thwack’, with star joining David Threlfall and Indira Varma at the Old Vic

April 2020

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    Lockdown culture
    Watch the NHS drama Tiger Country, starring Indira Varma – video

    Written and directed by Nina Raine, the acclaimed medical drama Tiger Country, staged at Hampstead theatre in 2015, is available to watch for free until 10pm on Sunday 26 April

June 2019

  • Rueful tenderness ... Andrew Scott as Garry Essendine and Indira Varma as Liz Essendine in Present Laughter.

    Present Laughter review – Andrew Scott dazzles in Coward's classic comedy

    Scott is richly funny as a peacocking Peter Pan whose theatrical bohemia is threatened by outsiders
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