Beware of the Actor! by Martin Dowsing review – in praise of Nicol Williamson
Prodigious talent but also deep unhappiness … this affectionate biography charts the rise and fall of the actor deemed the best of his generation
June 2016
Lend us your ears: how actors have handled key Shakespearean speeches
From Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be’ to Macbeth’s ‘Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow’, Shakespeare’s lines present an infinity of choices
December 2013
Letters: Barry Jackson the tennis player
Richard Norton-Taylor, Simon Hattenstone and Jack Gold on an actor with hidden depths
September 2013
Bertolt Brecht: irresistible force or forgotten chapter in theatrical history?
Brecht's belief that drama should present moral ideas through action is unfashionable, but as theatre becomes ever more narcissistic, audiences are seeking him out again, writes Michael Billington
February 2012
Letter: Nicol Williamson obituary
Trevor Phillips, Rob Woodford and Luke Proromou write: Nicol Williamson's English teacher at Central grammar school, Birmingham was Tom Reader, a charming, gentle scholar who affectionately called his pupils and colleagues "chums" or "rogues"
January 2012
Letter: Nicol Williamson obituary
Letter: Nicol Williamson obituary
Michael Pennington on Nicol Williamson: 'Most of what is written about his unreliability is tosh'
