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Harriet Walter

June 2024

  • Two women, one tied with rope, embracing in front of a mural of the Derry Girls

    Yes festival review – a marvellous appreciation of Molly Bloom

  • Steve Coogan

    More than 100 artists tell Starmer to halt arms sales to Israel if he becomes PM

January 2024

  • Victoria Lucie (Agnes) in On the Line.

    On the Line review – telephone-exchange thriller is one-person kidnap mystery

    Victoria Lucie is impressive as the only visible actor, connecting calls on the island of Alderney and piecing together a propulsive 60s-set drama

December 2023

  • Harriet Walter

    ‘What is it about life that’s sacred?’: Harriet Walter backs change in law on assisted dying

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

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

November 2023

  • Strict but distant figure … Harriet Walter The House of Bernarda Alba at the National Theatre.

    The House of Bernarda Alba review – Harriet Walter rules as Lorca gets a refurb

    Adapted by Alice Birch and directed by Rebecca Frecknall, this is a stylised study in control and daughterly disobedience

October 2023

  • Emma Beddington

    Maggie Smith, Miriam Margolyes, Harriet Walter … I can’t get enough of the new fashion icons

    Emma Beddington
  • Alice Birch photographed at the National Theatre in London by Antonio Olmos for the Observer New Review, October 2023.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Alice Birch: ‘When I’m writing, the banalities of motherhood such as head lice disappear’

June 2023

  • Mordant irony … Simon Russell Beale as Cassius in excerpts from Julius Caesar.

    Friends, Romans, Mr Speaker: can Shakespeare clean up parliament?

  • A sculpture of Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the NHS, overlooks the town clock in his hometown of Tredegar in south Wales.

    Play about NHS creator Nye Bevan is among 12 new National Theatre plays

May 2023

  • Unprecedented joy? … the Roy siblings partake in one of their few family traditions.

    Succession finale review – a perfect, terrible goodbye

    There was more agony by the moment as Jesse Armstrong’s epic ramped up to the most exquisitely humiliating ending imaginable. No one should have to cope with such pain

April 2023

  • ‘Our job is to fresh-mint famous lines’ … Antony Sher in Macbeth, Greg Doran with a puppet from Venus and Adonis in 2004, and David Tennant and Patrick Stewart in Hamlet.

    Romeo, Macbeth, Hamlet and me: the ecstasy and agony of staging Shakespeare

    From a literal knockout student production to inspiration from arachnids and a skull with an extraordinary backstory, the veteran director lifts the curtain on his career

December 2022

  • YCOM JAME ON TRAIN TO KEMBLE

    Your Christmas or Mine? review – ho ho ho-hum festive Britcom

    A young couple end up with each other’s family for Christmas in a middling assortment of sitcom cliches and laboured farce

October 2021

  • Extinction Rebellion activists

    Don’t put climate activists on trial, CPS urged

    Questions raised over purpose of prosecuting peaceful protesters after light sentences for activists who targeted climate-change sceptics
  • Harriet Walter by Dean Chalkley originally shot for The Observer

    Harriet Walter: ‘There are people who can play the game way better than me’

    A peerless classical actor, Harriet Walter has recently hit new highs playing frosty matriarchs
  • Football pundit Ian Wright and author Musa Okwonga.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

    The best original photographs from the Observer

February 2021

  • Harriet Walter and Noma Dumezweni.

    Double acts
    'That is our job in theatre – I'm gonna make you love me!' Noma Dumezweni meets Harriet Walter

  • Sharon D Clarke and Saida Ahmed in The Gift.

    Lockdown culture
    Crips Without Constraints review – five duos deliver sharp satire and tender drama

October 2020

  • ‘It’s just bricks put on top of each other’ … Clare Dunne, the writer and star of Herself.

    'I don't want another blockbuster!' How Phyllida Lloyd is following up Mamma Mia! and The Iron Lady

    After scoring two global hits, the director has made a low-budget film about a mother who builds her way out of homelessness – and it’s inspired by an article in the Guardian

July 2020

  • Brave new furs ... Stewart as Prospero in the RSC’s The Tempest in 2006.

    'He's so strapping and virile': Patrick Stewart at 80 – by Shatner, McKellen, Tennant and more

    Horse rides in stockings, rehearsals in deep freezes, fights in string vests ... as Patrick Stewart hits 80, friends from Harriet Walter to Brian Blessed pay tribute to the great actor
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