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Rachael Stirling

June 2024

  • Actor Rachael Stirling sitting leaning on turquoise cloth-covered table, against grey background, May 2024

    The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘My mother’s death left me with an urgent mission’: Rachael Stirling on sharing Diana Rigg’s views on assisted dying

    Her mother was furious at having no control over the end of her life. Now the actor is channelling that anger into getting the law changed

April 2024

  • Patricia Clarkson and Louisa Harland in Long Day’s Journey Into Night.

    The week in theatre: Long Day’s Journey Into Night; The Lover/The Collection; The Divine Mrs S – review

    Brian Cox and Patricia Clarkson shine as dysfunctional parents in Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play, David Morrissey brings a bold new register to Pinter, and April De Angelis takes on Sarah Siddons

December 2023

  • Diana Rigg photographed in 2019, the year before her death.

    ‘Nobody speaks about this’: Diana Rigg made impassioned plea for assisted dying law before death

    In a recording in 2020, the actor made a case for giving ‘human beings true agency over their bodies at the end of life’

April 2023

  • Stephen Mangan and Rachael Stirling in Private Lives at the Donmar Warehouse.

    Private Lives review – Coward’s comedy becomes a stark theatre of cruelty

  • Rachael Stirling photographed at the Lyric Hammersmith theatre for the Observer New Review in March 2022.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Rachael Stirling: ‘Promise me you’ll take out half the swearing?’

April 2022

  • Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City.

    The week in theatre: Punchdrunk: The Burnt City; Scandaltown

    The immersive theatre trailblazers return with an all-consuming vision of the siege of Troy
  • Lady Susan Climber (Rachael Stirling) and Peter Media (Henry Everett) in Scandaltown.

    Scandaltown review – smut and silliness in modern Restoration comedy

    Mike Bartlett’s rambunctious capers with types including Lady Susan Climber and Matt Eton MP are great fun if not exactly stinging satire
  • British rapper Stormzy performing at the Leeds First Direct Arena.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography

    From Hollywood maverick Lori Petty to Hugh Callaghan, one of the Birmingham Six – the best photographs commissioned by the Observer in March 2022

March 2022

  • Rachael Stirling photographed at the Lyric Hammersmith theatre for the Observer by Pål Hansen, March 2022. Hair and makeup by Sadaf Ahmad.

    When Covid shut the theatres, I became my mother’s carer. Returning feels defiant

    The pandemic closed the play I was starring in, the last my mum, Diana Rigg, ever saw. Two years on, staging a scandalous new play at the same theatre is cause for celebration

January 2022

  • OFM Jan Guy Garvey

    Lunch with...
    Guy Garvey: ‘Diana Rigg was so brave – and she was a hoot. Camparis at three every day’

    Elbow’s frontman on his mother-in-law’s death, the upside of therapy – and finally learning to love sushi

June 2021

  • Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me.

    Lockdown culture
    Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watch online

    From live streams of new plays to classics from the archive, here are some of the top shows online now or coming soon

April 2021

  • Rachael Stirling and Alec Newman.

    Lockdown culture
    Love in the Lockdown review – a virtual romance drawn with emotional subtlety

    This moreish serial drama finds new terrain with excellent performances from Rachael Stirling and Alec Newman

January 2021

  • Programme Name: Detectorists series 3 - TX: n/a - Episode: n/a (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: Lance (TOBY JONES), Andy (MACKENZIE CROOK) - (C) Channel X - Photographer: Chris Harris

    Stream team
    Detectorists: a sitcom about amateur archaeologists that's a bonafide heartwarming joy

    Each short episode of this charming series about a bumbling small-town metal-detecting club is a perfectly calibrated good mood

December 2020

  • Diana Rigg in 1967.

    The Observer's obituaries of 2020
    Diana Rigg remembered by Mark Gatiss

    The actor-writer, who wrote an episode of Doctor Who for Rigg, recalls the joy of seeing her flit effortlessly between serious drama and pure camp

September 2020

  • Gail (Alison Steadman) in Life

    TV review
    Life review – hopes and heartaches behind closed doors

    Mike Bartlett’s latest drama, set in the same world as his smash-hit Doctor Foster, is a smart exploration of the human condition, with just the right amount of sentimentality
  • Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee star as Emma Peel and John Steed in The Avengers, 1966

    Dame Diana Rigg obituary

    Actor who shot to TV stardom in the 1960s as Emma Peel in The Avengers and found new fans as the ruthless Lady Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones
  • Diana Rigg

    Diana Rigg, Avengers and Game of Thrones star, dies aged 82

    Actor who played Emma Peel in hit spy series and James Bond’s only wife was diagnosed with cancer in March

April 2020

  • Guy Garvey

    On my radar
    On my radar: Guy Garvey's cultural highlights

    The Elbow singer on TV monsters, a ballet version of Peter and the Wolf on YouTube, and Seamus Heaney on sofas

March 2020

  • Finely observed comment on youth and ageing … Isabella Laughland (Rose), Rachel Stirling (Sandra) and Mike Noble (Jamie) in Love Love Love.

    Love, Love, Love review – baby boomers v generation austerity

    Mike Bartlett’s brilliant play follows a couple trying, and failing, to keep family together

November 2019

  • Guy Garvey<br>Singer, Songwriter and guitarist with the band Elbow, Guy Garvey shot at the Albert Hall in Manchester

    This much I know
    Guy Garvey: ‘I’ve gone back to playing Lego fanatically’

    The musician, 45, tells Rich Pelley about his five sisters and two-year-old son, streakers on stage, worrying about songwriting and earning accolades from Paul McCartney
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