Another award for R'n'R and Rufus

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Tom Stoppard's new play Rock 'N' Roll has won both Best New Play and Best Actor (Rufus Sewell) at this year’s Critics' Circle Awards. In an echo of November's Evening Standard Awards, at which Rock 'N' Roll and Sewell both won, Kathleen Turner was again named Best Actress for Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?,

www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/display?contentId=92554

[rosenrot]

Well done to Rufus!!! It is fantastic to see him being recognised like this.

Minx
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[ukelelehip]

WOOHOO!! Good on ya, Rufus!!

Dearest, loveliest mods, surely this is news??

[britfan2]

Great news for Rufus! Will those winner photos be coming soon?

[ukelelehip]

Alright, a quickie as I'm at work...

[ruthy]

Well done Rufus! I see he's finally had a haircut as well, although a crop would have been preferable (and maybe some eyeliner........just my own personal fantasy) Who's the lucky lady, anyone know?

[rosenrot]

Oooooh, pretty boy......

He is looking mighty fine.

Minx
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she's so small. I didn't realize that in Rock 'n' roll. I'll have a couple of photos on the website this evening--

Nichole Ansari Cox-- she was in Rock 'n' Roll and is Brian Cox's wife.

[ukelelehip]

ruthy said:

Who's the lucky lady, anyone know?

Nicole Ansari who played Lenka in RnR. She's married to Brian Cox.

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Another link with a few anecdotes:

www.whatsonstage.com/dl/page.php?page=greenroom&story=E8821170180007

Meanwhile, Rufus Sewell has come to the conclusion that the secret to good acting – for him, at least – is playing Czechoslovakian characters. He remarked that he won the 1992 award for Most Promising Newcomer at the Critics’ Circle Awards for James Saunders’ Making It Better, in which Sewell played a Czechoslovakian student, followed up this year by another Czechoslovakian character, Jan. Sewell joked he regretted not having had a chance to chat to Trevor Nunn before the director had to leave in a hurry for his RSC rehearsals about the two of them collaborating on “Wenceslas the Musical”

[barfleur]

Fabulous!!! All together now - cross every appendage you can for the Olivier's!!!!!

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[GreenEyesToo]

What terrific news to come home to! Well done, Rufus and all the R&R gang!

Another comment from himself:

Rufus Sewell – Rock ‘N’ Roll (Best Actor)

Having won two awards for his performance in Rock ‘N’ Roll, Sewell refused to look ahead to the Laurence Olivier Awards, and declined to comment on whether he thought Michael Sheen had a Sewell-shaped voodoo doll. He did explain why he enjoyed this project so much:

“It’s just a fantastic role that was demanding, that when I read it I didn’t know if I could do it or not. It was beyond my immediate reach and I had to work bloody hard to do it. It’s really nice to get a part not based on what people have seen you already do; a chance to show something else, working with brilliant actors, brilliant director, brilliant play, fantastic theatre that I’ve always wanted to work in… other than that it was S**t.”

(http://www.thealternate.co.uk/?p=39)

Tongue in cheek, methinks!

[britfan2]

Thanks Uke. Please don't get in trouble at work!

[ree]

Wonderful news!!

Hurray for Rufus Hurray for Rock-N-Roll

Doesn't he look & sound great?

[ruthy]

Blimey, I didn't recognise Nicole Ansari from the play-and I saw it twice. Still, I think I can be forgiven as my gaze was diverted elsewhere at the time. In fact, the entire cast could have been made up of Rufus and some oompa-loompas and I might not have noticed

Here's to Rufus' well-known and fabulously British sense of humour, glad to see the adulation's not going to his head.