The dark world of Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler, who chronicled the decadence and darkness of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, has been given a modern twist by the Young Vic whose touring production, Sweet Nothings, runs at the Rose next week.
Directed by acclaimed Swiss director Luc Bondy, Sweet Nothings, is a new version of Schnitzler’s play Liebelei and it is in Kingston from April 22 – April 24. The play tells the story of young Vienesse Fritz and his friend, Theo, who invite two girls, Christine and Mizi, to join them for a party.
The festivities are soon interrupted by a mysterious stranger who challenges Fritz about an adulterous affair he has been having. This being Schnitzler, tragedy soon starts to unfold.
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One of the biggest strengths of City of Life is its multi-ethnic ensemble cast. Emirati director Ali F. Mostafa brought on board a set of eclectic actors from across the globe and planted them in Dubai for over a month to shoot his ambitious feature film. tabloid! asked British actress Natalie Dormer — who played Anne Boleyn in the costume drama The Tudors — about her impressions of Dubai.
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Dubai: For the Emirati filmmaker Ali F. Mustafa, life has come full circle at this year’s Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF). Two years ago he won the Best Emirati Filmmaker at the DIFF and last night he returned to the festival with the world premiere of his full-length feature film City of Life. Billed as Dubai’s first home-grown feature film helmed by an Emirati, Mustafa has tried to capture on celluloid the true spirit of Dubai with a multi-ethnic ensemble cast.
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The celebrities included the Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan and the American actress and singer Mandy Moore. But the real stars of Dubai International Film Festival’s opening night were two relative newcomers. Natalie Dormer and Sonu Sood may have several decades less experience than more veteran actors, but they drew the biggest crowd at the gala opening of the festival, now in its sixth year.
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Natalie Dormer is so cool it might just blow your mind. Her portrayal of Anne Boleyn on the Tudors already has much of the television-viewing public loving and or lusting after her, but it was undeniably excellent to be able to interview her if only because her answers have made me love her even more than I already did. She is historically aware, erudite, etcetera, etcetera, and her answers are really great to read, so, well, go forth and do so.
The bulk of your career thus far has revolved around historical projects. Why is this?
It just worked out that a couple of high profile historical projects were offered to me in the early years of my career. You don’t turn down a great job because it requires a corset and you’ve worn one before. I consider each project on individual merit.
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British actress Natalie Dormer, who plays the tragic queen Anne Boleyn in the royal period drama The Tudors opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers, says she would love to work in Indian films.
The actress believes that the future of entertainment lies in international collaborations like Slumdog Millionaire.
I would love to work in Indian films. In fact I recently shot an international film with Bollywood actor Sonu Sood in Dubai. I feel the future is about international collaborations like Slumdog Millionaire and City of Life,” the actress said over the phone from Los Angeles.
She is playing a Russian air hostess in City of Life, which is directed by Ali Mustafa.
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She fell straight out of drama school and into the arms of Heath Ledger’s Casanova, then was passionately seduced by Jonathan Rhys Meyers’s Henry VIII in The Tudors. So far, so steamy for hot new British talent Natalie Dormer. So how do you top that?
Natalie Dormer takes one look at our spartan little interview office and says playfully, ‘Shall we draw lots for the comfy chair?’ So already I’m won over by this baby-faced brunette, an avid poker player who could be said to have enjoyed more than her fair share of luck so far in the great gamble of an acting career.
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Tudors’ star gets a lesson in designer bags from Store Gazing but looks forward to a return to London where she’ll add to her collection of coats
Natalie Dormer is the lusty and wilful Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII, in the CBC/Showtime series The Tudors. But she is a designer bag virgin. Dormer, who was born in Reading, England, and lives in London, is in T.O. for a press tour and we meet in the handbag department at Holt Renfrew on Bloor St. She is carrying a smart yellow tote. “It’s just a cheapie,” she says dismissively. “I liked the colour.”
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Natalie Dormer held her own against the boys as a teenager at Reading Blue Coat School, a boys’ boarding school in the English county of Berkshire that admits girls in the senior grade.
She survived serious injury to life and limb while training in modern dance and ballet at the Allenova School of Dancing, then sharpened her swordsmanship and footwork at the London Fencing Academy. She studied theatre at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, then landed a role as Victoria in Lasse Hallstrom’s 2005 period epic Casanova.
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Clever consort
On The Tudors, Natalie Dormer never let Anne Boleyn’s cruel fate get in the way of a good sex scene, but she also made sure the steamy bits didn’t get in the way of history, writes Kate Taylor
Good thing Natalie Dormer knows her history. It kept sex with Jonathan Rhys Meyers in perspective.
The 26-year-old British actress plays a sultry, wily Anne Boleyn to Rhys Meyers’s hungry young Henry VIII on The Tudors – with a second season of triumph and tragedy for her character premiering tonight on CBC Television – and she says her research helped her with the steamy bits.
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