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A Little Like Drowning 144
Abbott, Jacqueline 180
Absolutely Fabulous 93
Academy Awards (Oscars) 224–5
Ackroyd, Peter 25
Acton Business and Professional Women’s Club 20
Actors (Barnes) 15, 91–2
Adams, David 49
Adams, Gerry 231, 235
Aladdin 1, 137
Albery, Donald 180
Albery Theatre, London 261
Alchemist, The (Jonson) 38, 40
Ali Baba and the Seven Dwarfs 40
Allen, Tim 248, 249
Allen, Woody 99, 150
Almeida Theatre, London 57, 109, 177, 190, 221, 224
Almodóvar, Pedro 246
Ambassadors Theatre, London 110
Amblin 233
Amnesty International 149
An Awfully Big Adventure 6, 197, 199, 216–21, 235, 248
Aniston, Jennifer 260
Antonio (Barnes) 59, 74
Antonio and Mellida (Marston) 74
Antonio’s Revenge (Marston) 74
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare) 4, 87, 234, 249–52, 253, 260
Arditti, Michael 163, 166
Armstrong, Alun 220
Art of Love, The 107
Art (Reza) 265
Arts Council 170, 184
As You Like It (Shakespeare) 73, 104–6, 113, 162, 223, 279
Ashcroft, Peggy 254
Asquith, Ros 102, 105
Astaire, Fred 14, 54, 240, 279
Atkinson, Robert 163
Atkinson, Rowan 269
Aung San Suu Kyi 254
Austen, Jane 70, 122, 224, 227
Avengers, The 233
Babelsberg studio 201
Babes in the Wood 55
Bacall, Lauren 102
Bacon, Francis 11
Bad Language (Hughes) 79, 97, 98
BAFTA awards 280
Bailey, Catherine 54, 174, 176, 177–8, 179, 180, 181–6, 193, 204
Bainbridge, Beryl 216, 219
Barber, John 61, 68, 101–2, 115
Barbican Theatre, London 176
Barchester Chronicles, The 6, 7, 53, 72, 80–6, 90, 107, 267
Barchester Towers (Trollope) 81
Bardsley, Barney 53, 117
Barge, Gillian 204, 206, 208, 274
Barlby Primary School, West London 26, 129
Barnes, Christie 262
Barnes, Clive 261
Barnes, Peter
on acting and actors 89–90, 213, 223, 234, 270
on AR 5, 6, 9, 11, 14, 58–60, 64, 214–15, 216, 222–3, 233, 245, 249, 251, 261, 282
AR’s work with 261
family 26–8, 262
on Harry Potter films 267
on Rima 8, 13, 160
screenplays 119, 137–8, 139
stage plays 22, 26, 58–60, 74–5, 91–2, 152–6
TV dramas 129, 131–2
Barrie, J.M. 216
Barrow-in-Furness 167–8
Barton, John 107
Bates, Alan 100, 249, 250, 251, 261
Baudelaire, Charles 103, 109
Bausch, Pina 247
Baylis, Lilian 179
BBC 23, 53
News 24 251, 259, 269
Beals, Margaret 54
Beatles, The 257
Beaufoy, Simon 256
Beauvoir, Simone de 7
Beckett, Samuel 257
Beckinsale, Kate 35
Bedelia, Bonnie 122, 123, 124, 125, 126
Beggar’s Opera, The 108
Behn, Aphra 98
Benefactors (Frayn) 127–8
Bennett, Jill 53
Berens, Jessica 152
Bergman, Ingmar 99
Berkeley, Busby 257
Berlin Film Festival 227
Berry, Cicely 66
Bharadwaj, Radha 148
Bigelow, Kathryn 148
Biggerstaff, Sean 247
Biggins, Christopher 10
Billington, Michael 79, 102, 115, 155, 166–7, 178, 222
Billy And Me 129, 131
Binder, Mike 255
Birmingham Post 61
Birmingham Rep 61
Bishop, Susannah 65
Black Dwarf, The 22
Blair, Tony 13, 79
Blessed, Brian 140
Blood Wedding (Lorca) 93
Blow Dry 256
Bob Roberts 164, 276
Bogart, Humphrey 102
Bogdanov, Michael 5, 56–7
Bond, Matthew 35–6
Bond, Philip 35
Bond, Samantha 35
Bonham-Carter, Helena 259
Borgia Orgy, The 48
Boston Globe 244
Bourne, Val 176
Bowie, David 196, 196–7, 201
Boys From The Blackstuff 85
Branagh, Kenneth 31, 169, 217, 225
Breathnach, Paddy 256
Brecht, Bertolt 238
Brett, Jeremy 147
Brierley, David 113–14
Briers, Richard 169
Bristol Old Vie 60, 115
British Museum, London 137
British Theatre Association 180
Brody, Hugh 144
Broidy, Susan 159
Bromley, Mrs 29–30
Brook Green Players 46
Brook, Peter 153, 170, 179, 249
Brown, Divine 218
Brown, Gordon 259
Brown, Jane 199
Browning Version, The (Rattigan) 34
Brussels Film Festival 265
Buccaneers, The 154
Buck, Karen 163
Burdett-Coutts, William 185, 187
Burge, Stuart 13, 58, 59
Burma UK campaign 253–4, 260
Burn This 111
Bush Theatre, Hammersmith 15, 62, 76–7, 180, 224, 281
Busted (Davis) 51, 90–1
Byer, John 37
Calder-Marshall, Anna 61
Callow, Simon 14, 77
Cambridge, University of 91
Camden Journal 54
Camille 109
Campbell, Alastair 258–60
Cannes Film Festival 196
Carlton Television 70
Carnation Gang, The 149
Carne, Rosalind 97
Carnival Theatre 183
Carrington 214–15
Casablanca 120, 155
Castle Bromwich News 61
Catcher in the Rye, The 62
Cates, Georgina 219, 220
Caucasian Chalk Circle, The (Brecht) 39
Chariots of Fire 65
Charities Commission 190–1
Charleson, Ian 65
Charlie Rose Show, The 260–1
Chelsea (constituency) 159
Chelsea College of Art 36, 41, 44
Children On The Edge 137
Christabel (Potter) 197
Christopher, James 178
Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow 73–4
City Limits 102, 117, 155
Clark, Alan 163, 258
Clerks 248
Close, Glenn 110
Close My Eyes 16, 138, 139, 149–52, 158, 245
Closetland 138, 139, 148–9
Cloud Over the Morning 39
CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) 8, 12, 168
Coleman, lain 176, 181, 182, 183, 185, 186
Collins, Michael 234–6
Colman, Ronald 155
Coltrane, Robbie 266
Commitments (Hughes) 76–7, 98
Conlan, Tara 250
Coogan, Steve 125
Cook, Peter 7
Coppola, Francis Ford 206
Coriolanus (Shakespeare) 38
Costner, Kevin 17, 137, 138, 138–9, 140, 141, 143, 278
Court Drama Group (Stanhope Adult Education Institute) 36, 47–9
Coveney, Michael 74, 101, 105, 116, 166, 250
Coventry Telegraph 61
Coward, Noël 261, 266, 270
Cox, Brian 69, 71, 73, 215
Cranham, Kenneth 71
Crewe, Sue 168
Crossley, Stephen 54, 214
Crowley, Aleister 88, 238, 270
Crowley, Bob 176
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield 57, 73–4, 106, 162
Crying Game, The 245
Curtis, Richard 268–9
Cushman, Robert 34, 39, 40, 42, 60, 79
‘Daddy’ (Plath) 88
Dahl, Sophie 268
Daily Express 7, 154, 165–6, 222
Daily Mail 105, 139, 155, 159, 163, 167, 222, 270, 275, 277
Daily Mirror 121, 167
Daily Telegraph 55, 60, 61, 62, 68, 95, 97, 101–2, 115, 116, 151, 158–9, 163, 166, 178, 222
Dalyell, Tam 258
Dance, Charles 77, 216
Dance Umbrella 176
Dances With Wolves 134, 136
Dangerous Liaisons 16, 110, 112–13
Dark Harbor 245–6
David, Eleanor 132
Davies, Andrew 70
Davies, Howard 3, 15, 105, 107, 109, 112, 114–15, 142, 260
Davis, Jane 263
Davis, Stephen
on actors 213
on AR 3, 6–7, 10–11, 19–20, 23, 50, 62, 88, 90–1, 112, 145–6, 262–3, 265–6, 273, 279, 282
on AR’s family 26
conservation project 268
family 20, 262–3
plays 50–1, 80, 90–1
on Rima 8, 44
rock band 145–6
on Juliet Stevenson 62
Day In The Death Of Joe Egg, A (Nichols) 247
de Jongh, Nicholas 178, 179, 187, 191
De La Tour, Frances 160
de Valera, Eamon 231, 234–6
Dead Again 225
Death Is Part Of The Process 130
Delingpole, James 62, 151
Dempster, Nigel 159
Dench, Judi 107
Dern, Laura 225–6
Derwentwater Junior School 30
Desert Island Discs 48
Design for Living (Coward) 249
Desperately Yours 93
Devil Himself, The (Wedekind/Barnes) 58, 74–6
Devil is an Ass, The (Jonson/Barnes) 58, 59, 60, 174
Dexter, John 95
Diana, Princess of Wales 22
Dick Whittington 30
Die Hard 1, 3, 16, 19, 26, 74, 94, 95, 111, 112, 119–29, 128, 129, 143, 153, 246, 257, 267
Die Hard with a Vengeance 121
Dionisotti, Paola 78
Dixon, Wendy 28–9
Dogma 246, 248
Don Giovanni (Mozart) 85
Don, Robin 222
Donald, Jonathan 163
Donat, Robert 277
Doors, The 170
Doran, Lindsay 225
Douglas, Michael 255
Dr Strangelove 164
Dr Who 233
Drabble, Margaret 40
Drama 115, 279
Drama Magazine 53
Drinkwater, Carol 220
Du Sautoy, Carmen 66
Duchess of Duke Street, The 70
Duchess of Malfi, The (Webster) 170
Duncan, Lindsay 3, 15, 107, 110, 113, 221–2, 260–1
Durham, Geoffrey 57
Dutch Courtesan, The (Marston/Barnes) 96
Ealing and Acton Gazette 20, 27
Edel, Uli 236
Edinburgh Festival 60
Edney, Beatie 154
Edwardes, Jane 108, 117
Elle 120
Ellis-Bextor, Sophie 35
Elsom, John 79
Enchanted April 119, 246
English Shakespeare Company 183
Entertainer, The (Osborne) 131
Entertainment Weekly 140
ER 234
Evening Standard (London)
AR interviewed for 84, 168–9, 170–1, 188, 197, 224, 280
Awards 78–9, 177
reviews in 68, 96, 97, 98, 166, 221
and Riverside proposals 175, 179, 187–91, 193
on Ronan Vibert 154
on Ruby Wax 163
Evita 215
Ewart-Biggs, Baroness 158
Express & Star (Birmingham) 61
Eyre, Richard 175
Fallen Angels 225, 233
Falling Down 255
Fallowell, Duncan 5, 125
Fatal Attraction 110
Fears and Miseries of the Third Reich (Brecht) 74
Feast, Michael 51, 90
Fences (Wilson) 110
Fielding, Fenella 61
Fiennes, Ralph 167, 233
Figgis, Susie 235
Film 92 164
Film 93 196
Film 95 220
Film Finances Services 198, 199, 200–2
Financial Times 68, 74, 79, 101, 105, 116, 162–3, 222
Finney, Albert 153
Fiorentino, Linda 248
Firth, Colin 269
Fishburn, Dudley 159
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 225–6
Fitzgerald, Sheridan 9, 63, 64–8, 92, 233
Fletcher, Dexter 73
Flynn, Barbara 127–8
Flynn, Errol 142
Follett, Ken 12, 158
Fontanne, Lynn 62
Ford, Julia 165–6
Fort Worth Star-Telegraph 143
Fortune’s Fool (Turgenev) 261
42nd Street 249
Four Weddings and a Funeral 216, 269
Francis, lan 160–1, 164
Franks, Philip 144
Frears, Stephen 108, 110, 111
French, Dawn 93
French, Sean 112, 127, 150
Freud, Sigmund 207
Frida 265
From Sleep & Shadow (Barnes) 131–3
Frost, David 40
Full Monty, The 256
Furness, Deborra-Lee 269
Gaitskell, Hugh 163
Galaxy Quest 248–9
Galloway, George 111
Gambon, Michael 15, 260, 268
Gardner, Lyn 155
Garofalo, Janeane 255–6
Geldof, Bob 9
Gero, Frank 109
Ghost 16, 145
Ghosts (Ibsen) 54
Gibson, Jeremy 49
Gielgud, John 117, 254, 271
Gifford, Anthony, QC 49
Giles, David 81
Girls on Top 93
Glasgow Herald 61
Godolphin & Latymer School 35, 37
Godunov, Alexander 123, 124, 126
Good Old Days, The 39
Goodale, Robert 201
GQ 6, 44, 51, 53, 62, 112, 113, 122, 127, 143, 150, 278, 281
Granger, Dave 50
Grant, Hugh 4, 12, 30, 35, 41, 42, 48, 199, 216, 218, 220, 226, 227, 269
Grant, Richard E. 260
Graphiti 50–1
Grass Widow, The (Wilson) 11, 87, 98, 107
Griffiths, Rachel 256
Grove, Valerie 50, 162, 165, 223
Guard, Christopher and Dominic 30, 35
Guardian 23, 59, 60, 61, 79, 94, 97, 102, 112, 115, 117, 122, 134, 166, 178, 222, 257
Guinness, Alec 4, 72, 272
Guys and Dolls 57, 279
Hackman, Gene 203, 214
Hackney Empire, London 167
Hackworth-Young, Jane 178, 179–85, 186, 188
Hamlet (Shakespeare) 49, 54, 104, 155, 156, 165–9, 234, 250
Hammersmith & Fulham
Council 176, 180, 184–6, 189
Miners’ Support Group 180
Hammersmith Drama Festival 39–40
Hammersmith and Fulham Post 188
Hammond, Chris 41, 42–4, 218
Hamori, Andras 201
Hampshire, Susan 83
Hampstead Theatre, London 14, 152
Hampton, Christopher 80, 104, 107–11, 112, 113, 114, 176, 192, 215, 269
Hancock, Tony 58
Hand Witch Of The Second Stage, A (Barnes) 89
Hands, Terry 107, 109
Hanks, Tom 11
Hannibal 276
Hare, David 274
Harman, Harriet 43
Harney, Desmond 162
Harpers & Queen 50, 162, 165, 223
Harris, Richard 266
Harry Potter books (Rowling) 69, 119
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 1, 235, 248, 262, 263, 266–8
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 1, 46, 235, 248, 259, 263, 266–8
Hatley, Tim 250, 260–1
Havergal, Giles 74
Hawthorne, Nigel 6, 21, 69, 81–2, 111, 131, 132
Haymarket Theatre, Leicester 56
Headstrong Club 21
Heath, Edward 76
Hedley, Philip 137, 254–5
Help! I’m A Fish 256–7
Henn, Charles 55
Heseltine, Michael 85
Hewitt, James 22
Hickey, Theresa 45, 112, 270
Hill, Bernard 55, 85
Hill, Christopher 131
Hirshhorn, Clive 166, 222
History Man, The 85
Hitler, Adolf 124
Holman, Robert 29, 93–5
Holmes, Ann 159
Holt, Thelma 169–70
and Evening Standard awards 79
friendship with AR 14
and Hamlet 155, 165, 176–9, 181, 182, 190–2
and Riverside proposals 154, 158, 169–70, 174
and Tango At The End Of Winter 153
Hooke, John Home 21
Hopkins, Anthony 215–6, 273, 276–7, 282
Hordern, Michael 63, 67, 68
Home, Paul 49
Horton, Rima
as amateur actress 8, 36, 46–9, 76 on AR 258
as Labour councillor 111–12, 181
moves in with AR 59–60
political career 12–13, 26, 51, 128, 158–62, 193, 258
as producer 269–70
relationship with AR 7–8, 12, 24, 28, 44–8, 66, 85, 100–1, 262–3, 269–70, 272, 279 and Riverside 174
as school governor 26, 129
schooldays 29–30
Hoskins, Bob 244, 259
Hostage, The 48
Howard, Alan 4, 107
Howerd, Frankie 14
Hughes, Dusty 7, 45, 77–9, 80, 97, 213, 234, 272
Hughes, Gwenda 56
Hungary 197, 207
Hunniford, Gloria 15
Hunter, William 175, 179, 180–93
Huppert, Isabelle 177, 243
Hurren, Kenneth 116, 117
Hurt, John 257
I Went Down 256
Idle, Eric 71, 233
Ignatius Loyola 23
Importance of Being Earnest, The (Wilde) 48
Imrie, Celia 187
‘In Demand’ 156
Independent 178
Independent on Sunday 15, 142, 277
Indiana Jones 266
Innocent, Harold 60, 91
Irish Times 256
Irons, Jeremy 121, 205, 214–15
Italian Straw Hat, The 35
Ivy restaurant, London 9
Izzard, Eddie 247
Jackman, Hugh 269
Jacobi, Derek 40
Jagger, Mick 4, 108
James, Clive 103–4, 104
James, Peter 9, 11, 73–4, 106, 162, 217, 247–8, 258, 271–2
James, Sid 106
January Man, The 133, 164
Jeffrey, Peter 239
Jewish Chronicle 154
Jones, Dr Hilary 30
Jones, Tommy Lee 273–4
Jonson, Ben 12
Joplin, Janis 77
Jordan, Neil 234
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Lloyd–Webber/Rice) 57
Judas Kiss 102, 245, 246
Kafka 205
Karlin, Miriam 253, 254
Keating, Charles 75
Keitel, Harvey 133
Kelly, Jude 57, 62, 168
Kennedy, Helena 259
Kennedy, Jacqueline 110
Kensington & Chelsea (borough), Arts Council 49
Kensington & Chelsea (constituency) 159–61, 163–4, 258
Kensington and Chelsea News 258
Kensington News 159, 160, 162, 163, 164
Kent, Jonathan 57
Kilroy, Thomas 79
King, Francis 97, 102, 116
King Grizzly Bear 29
Kingsley, Ben 107, 113
Kinnear, Roy 96
Kinnock, Glenys 137, 253–4
Kinnock, Neil 104, 253–4
Kitchen, Michael 127–8
Kline, Kevin 133
Knight of the Burning Pestle, The (Beaumont) 39
Knightley, Keira 269
Krapp’s Last Tape (Beckett) 257
Kunz, Simon 36
La Plante, Lynda 250
Labour Party 111, 144, 146, 158, 161, 163, 258, 259, 271
Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de 103–4
Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire 268
Lady From The Sea (Ibsen) 170
Lahr, John 3, 275, 276
LAMDA 73, 217, 247, 271
Lamede, Jonathan 188
Lane, Anthony 277
Lang, Belinda 56
Lang, Fritz 257
Langton, Simon 70, 72, 121
Lapotaire, Jane 66
Last Action Hero, The 216
Last Elephant, The (Davis) 80
Last Tycoon, The (Fitzgerald) 225
Late Show, The 54, 120, 197, 204
Latymer, Edward 37, 44, 279
Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith, London 12, 25, 30–2, 33–44, 51, 220, 255, 282
Gild Drama Club 34, 37–41, 48
Latymer Theatre 43
Latymerian, The 34, 38, 39, 40
Law, Phyllida 221, 224, 244
Laws, Elsie 34
Lawson, Mark 116
Lawton, Heather 60
Laye, Dilys 74–5
Le Carré, John 72
Lee, Ang 156, 226–9
Lee, Spike 243
Leicester Graphic 68
Leigh, Mike 255, 279
Les Misérables 113
Lewis, Peter 153, 155
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Hampton) 104, 107–18
AR as Valmont 2, 6, 11, 15–16, 49, 101, 102, 107, 115–18, 120, 175, 229, 277, 280
on Broadway 109–10, 116, 154
film 14, 110–13, 117
at Stratford 108–9
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Laclos) 103–4
Limelight 155
Lindsay, Robert 260
Lion King, The 214
Listener, The 79
Lloyd George, David 235
Lloyd Webber, Andrew 26, 110
Lo Fingido Verdadero (Vega) 91
Lock Up Your Daughters 56
London Arts Board 189
Longford, Lord 158
Lorimar 110–11, 114
Los Angeles Daily News 133
Los Angeles Times 243
Love, Actually 269
Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare) 48, 66
Lucie Cabrol 206
Lucky Chance, The (Behn) 98–102, 191
Lumière brothers 243
Lumière and Company 243
Lunt, Alfred 62
Lynch, David 243
Lyric Studio, Hammersmith 74
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith 42, 162, 180, 181–2, 184
Macaulay, Alastair 222
Macbeth (Shakespeare) 154, 252
McBurney, Simon 123, 204–7
McCabe, Jim 33, 41, 43
McDiarmid, lan 57
McDonagh, Margaret 258–9
MacDonald, Gary 187
Macdonald, Sharman 3, 77, 177, 221, 224, 269
McEwan, Geraldine 6, 81, 140, 142, 165, 177, 187
McFerran, Ann 140
McGann, Paul 233
McKellen, lan 4, 236, 239, 241
Mackenzie, Susie 23, 25, 45–6
Mackintosh, Genista 109
McNally, Kevin 77
McTiernan, John 122
Madness of King George, The 111
Mail On Sunday 116, 117, 198
Malkovich, John 7, 16, 108, 110–11, 112, 122
Maloney, Michael 145, 147
Man for All Seasons, A (Bolt) 272
Man is Man (Brecht) 60, 115
Manchester Library Theatre 55
Mandell, Robert 57
Mandelson, Peter 257–8
Manhunter 215
Mann, Klaus 116
Manson, Charles 237
Marian, Tina 75, 91
Marowitz, Charles 170
Marston, John 74
Marvin, Blanche 11, 12, 17, 224, 272
Marvin, Nicolette (Niki) 17, 56, 224
Mary Stuart (Schiller) 177, 243
Mason, James 277
Massey, Anna 79, 107
Massey, Daniel 107
Masterpieces 99
Mastrantonio, Mary Elizabeth 141
Mathias, Sean 249, 250
Maugham, Somerset 269
Maxwell, Robert 170
Mayfair Entertainment 196, 198, 200–2
Me And My Girl 229
Measure for Measure (Shakespeare) 54
Medea 153
Mephisto (Mnouchkine) 104, 116–17
Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate 30
Merry Wives of Windsor, The 113
Mesmer 4–5, 123, 132, 153, 196–212, 217, 242, 248, 272, 274, 280, 281
Mesmer, Friedrich Anton (Franz) 193, 195–7, 203–4, 205, 207, 236, 237
Messenbird, Hester 21
Methodist Hall, Shepherd’s Bush 46
Metropolis 257
Michael Collins 234–6
Midgley, Robin 57
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare) 234
Miller, Jonathan 63, 144
Milligan, Stephen 22
Mills, Hayley 73
Milne, Paula 104
Minghella, Anthony 16, 143, 144, 145, 257
Mirren, Helen 87, 170, 249–51
Miss Julie (Strindberg) 177, 243
Mitterrand, François 243
Mnouchkine, Ariane 116
Molina, Alfred 265
Moline, Karen 120
Montessori, Maria 28–9
Montreal film Festival 212, 280
Moon and Sixpence, The (Maugham) 269
Morgan, Fidelis 187
Morley, Sheridan 116, 251
Morrell, Lady Ottoline 61
Morrison, Jim 170
Mother Courage (Brecht) 238
Mother Love 70
Moving Theatre 177
Mowlam, Mo 12
Murder, Obliquely 225, 233
Music Box, Broadway 110, 114
Nathan, David 154
Nathanson, Paul 198–9
National Film Theatre 246
National Lottery 187
National Theatre, London 4, 56, 59, 60, 79, 170, 174–5, 176, 177, 234, 243, 269
Navy Lark, The 97
Nederlander, James 109, 114
Neeson, Liam 234, 243, 269
Nelligan, Kate 69, 71
New York Post 261
New York Times 110, 261
New York Village Voice 102
Newby, Michael 41
Newell, Mike 4, 9, 216–20, 248
Nicholas Nickleby 113
Nicholson, David 275
Night Must Fall (Williams) 46, 76
Nightingale, Benedict 155, 178, 222
Nighy, Bill 269
Ninagawa, Yukio 152–4, 156
Noble, Adrian 15, 25, 60, 61, 62–3, 85, 104–5, 113, 115, 120, 214, 223–4, 247, 274, 279
Norman, Barry 138, 164, 196, 220
North Kensington Community Centre 26
Notting Hill Herald 49–50
Nottingham Playhouse 59, 73
Nunn, Trevor 40, 109, 114, 115, 175, 269
Nyman, Michael 197, 207
O’Brien, Catherine 121, 167
Observer 5, 60, 79, 99, 101, 104, 105, 117, 166, 189
O’Casey, Sean 24, 47
Oh! Calcutta! 170
Oklahoma! 269
Old Vic Theatre, London 183
Oldfield, Mike 169
Oldman, Gary 214, 215
Oliver, Rupert and Violet 21
Olivier, Sir Laurence 31, 47, 217, 254, 272, 273
Olivier Theatre, London 249, 250
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest 202
One World Action 137, 254
Ooms, Amanda 204, 207, 208
Open Space Theatre 170
Orton, Nigel 38, 44
Osborne, John 53
Othello (Shakespeare) 107, 113
Other Worlds (Holman) 76, 93–6
O’Toole, Peter 22, 252
Out Of Joint 80, 157
Owen, Clive 150–1
Owen, Michael 168, 170, 178, 188, 197, 224, 280
Oxford Playhouse 79
Oz 49
Pacino, Al 59
Pagett, Nicola 220
Paige, Elaine 279
Paine, Thomas 21
Rights of Man, The 21
Paterson, Bill 145
Patrick, Tony 163
Patten, Brian 50
Paxman, Jeremy 91
Pearson, Allison 15, 142
Pearson, Neil 187
Peer Gynt (Ibsen) 155
Peggy Ashcroft Theatre, Guildford 254
People 139
Peter, John 167
Peter Pan (Barrie) 216, 218
Peterborough column 158–9
Phantom of the Opera 26
Phillips, Leslie 97
Phoenix Theatre, Leicester 56
Piccadilly Theatre, London 22, 154
Pinter, Harold 152
Pitt, Brad 260
Plater, Alan 80–1, 84
Plath, Sylvia 88–9, 277
Play 257
Players of Shakespeare 105
Pleasence, Donald 6, 81
Pogson, Kathryn 187
Poliakoff, Stephen
on AR 2, 5, 14, 15, 69, 87, 104, 106–7, 112, 139, 149–50, 224, 227, 272
and The Summer Party 73–4
see also Close My Eyes; Sweet Panic
Pollack, Sydney 225
Portillo, Michael 258, 259
Portrait of Scythrop 39
Potter, Beatrix 229
Potter, Dennis 153, 193, 196–212, 281
Powell, Jeff 139, 275
Powell, Jonathan 69–70, 72, 80–1, 233
Preacher, The (Barnes) 129–31
Prebble, John 31
Premiere 125
Prime Suspect 250
Private Lives (Coward) 1, 3, 79, 251, 253, 260–2, 265, 268
Pruce, Peter 237, 238
Pryce, Jonathan 214–15
Punch 116
Quigley Down Under 134–6, 140
Quilley, Denis 91
RADA 48, 51, 53, 75, 137, 247, 275
Rains, Claude 117, 120, 138, 277, 282
Ramsay, Peggy 113–14
Rasputin 1, 17, 233, 236–42, 243, 272, 280
Rasputin, Grigori 236–9
Rasputin, Maria 239, 241
Ratcliffe, Michael 101, 104, 105, 117
Rathbone, Basil 120, 138, 142
Raw Produce 158
Ray, John 41
Recruiting Officer, The (Farquhar) 80
Redbrick 61
Redgrave, Corin 12, 40, 177
Redgrave, Vanessa 12, 170, 177, 258
Reedus, Norman 246
Reeves, Saskia 150–2, 279
Reid, Mrs 29–30
Renaissance Theatre Company 169
Return Journey (Thomas) 40
Revolutionary Witness (Barnes) 129
Reynolds, Kevin 139, 143
Reynolds, Lance 199, 200–2
Rich, Frank 110
Richard III (Shakespeare) 53
Richardson, Natasha 256
Richardson, Sir Ralph 21, 217
Rickman, Alan Patrick
birth 21
family background 10, 21, 22–3
at Montessori School 28–9
at Latymer Upper School 12, 25, 30–2, 33–44, 51
at Chelsea College of Art 44
in amateur dramatic groups 46–7
at Royal College of Art 49
at Graphiti 50
at RADA 48, 51–5
appearance 1, 2, 9, 11–12, 14, 15, 224, 227, 238
artistic talent 22–3
as ASM 55
awards 212, 238, 243, 245, 280
as director 93–4, 221–4, 244–5, 265
as dresser 53
essay on playing Jaques 105–6, 279
on himself 274–6
joins Labour Party 111
Masterclass 253, 259–60
and mother 23–8, 243–4
personality 2, 4–5, 9, 11–12, 13–15, 19–20, 55–6, 57, 58–9, 78, 81, 281
politics 1, 2, 6, 10, 12, 42–3, 78–9, 85, 144, 160, 168, 258–9, 271, 278
at RADA 53–5
roles rejected 215–19
at RSC 6, 62–8, 69, 73, 103
sexual charisma 2, 4, 6–7, 9–10, 17, 19, 83, 88, 90, 100
see also Horton, Rima, relationship with AR
Rickman, Bernard (AR’s father) 21, 22, 23–4, 168
Rickman, David Bernard John (AR’s brother) 10, 21, 22–3, 26, 44
Rickman, Margaret Doreen Rose (née Bartlett, AR’s mother) 10, 21, 22, 23–8, 168, 243–4, 245
Rickman, Michael Keith (AR’s brother) 10, 14, 22–3, 26
Rickman, Sheila (AR’s sister) 22, 23, 46 daughters 46
Rickman, Thomas (‘Clio’) 21–2
Life of Paine, The 21
Riese, Mark 189
Rights Now 159
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith 5, 54, 95, 98, 157–8, 169–70, 173–93, 214, 221, 271, 281
Robbins, Tim 164, 276
Robin Hood 142
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 1, 16–17, 19, 37, 53, 89, 131, 137–43, 149, 158, 204, 257, 260, 277–9
Rodgers, Anton 187
Rogers, Sir Richard 177
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) 48, 57, 69, 199
Ronnie Scott’s Club 49
Rose, Charlie 3
Roundhouse, London 169, 170, 191
Rowling, J.K. 119, 268
Royal College of Art 49
Royal Court Theatre, London 77, 79, 98–100, 107, 157, 253
Royal Opera House 183
Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) 214, 246–8, 260, 281
AR leaves 69, 73
AR rejoins 103
Christmas party 25
and Les Liaisons Dangereuses 2, 16, 105–10, 113–18
‘nuns’ at 144
at Roundhouse 170
Royal Society of Medicine 207
Ruling Class, The (Barnes) 22, 26, 58, 131
Russell, Barry 115
Russell, Ken 211
Ryall, David 147
Rylance, Mark 176
Sachs, Leonard 39, 40
Sachs, Robin 39
St Joan (Shaw) 55, 56, 220
St Vincent’s School, London 29–30
Salberg, Jane 99
San Giacomo, Laura 135
Sanders, George 120, 277
Sarandon, Susan 133, 164
Sarasota Film Festival 255
Sartre, Jean-Paul 7
Saturday Review 103–4, 104
Saunders, Jennifer 93
Savage, Peter 186–7
Scacchi, Greta 236, 239
Scales, Prunella 187, 220
Schlesinger, John 201
Schoenfeld, Gerald 110
Schubert Organisation 110, 114
Schulz-Keil, Wieland 201–2
Scofield, Paul 272
Scorer, Ian 198–9
Scott, Sir Nicholas 159, 161, 162, 163–4, 258
Scott, Victoria 159
Scott-Thomas, Kristin 257
Seagull, The (Chekhov) 72, 77, 79–80, 93, 107, 108
Search for John Gissing, The 255–6
Sebastian, Tim 23, 259, 269
Segal, Philip 233
Sekacz, Ilona 191
Selleck, Tom 134–5
Sense and Sensibility 16, 156, 216, 218, 224, 225, 226–31, 234, 246
Sense and Sensibility: Behind the Scenes 229
Sense & Sensibility: The Diaries 228–30
Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance (Arden) 39
Sexy Beast 87
Sharp, Jane 36
Sharp, Miriam (‘Mim’) 36, 48
Sharp, Wilf 33, 36, 48
Shaw, Fiona 65, 113, 144, 176, 177
Shawshank Redemption, The 224–5
Sher, Antony 85, 107, 175
Shimuzu, Kunio 152
Shirras, James 198, 199, 201, 202, 204
Shorter, Eric 97, 105, 116
Shulman, Milton 68, 97, 98
Silence of the Lambs 215, 272, 276
Silver, Joel 120
Sinn Fein 231
Six Characters In Search Of An Author (Pirandello) 155
Small, Christopher 61
Smiley’s People 70, 72–3, 80
Smith, Bessie 75–6
Smith, Kevin 246, 248, 256
Smith, Maggie 266
Smith, Mel 30, 35, 41, 42, 43–4, 48, 218
Spacey, Kevin 276
Spear, Ruskin 33
Spectator 95
Spencer, Charles 115, 163, 166, 178, 222
Spencer, Charlie 96
Spielberg, Steven 17, 233, 266
Spirit of Man, The (Barnes) 89, 131
Spiteri, Sharleen 156
Spottiswoode, Roger 197, 198, 199, 202–4, 205–6
Spurr, Derek 182
Squirrel Nutkin (Potter) 229
Stafford-Clark, Max 79, 80, 87, 91, 100, 157, 173
Stage 250
Stage and Television Today 50, 115
Standing Room Only 268, 269
Stead, Edward (‘Ted’) 33, 34, 36, 39, 40, 47–9, 89, 141, 149, 155, 278
Stein, Peter 179
Steppenwolf 175
Stevenson, Juliet
AR on 5
awards 54, 158
friendship with AR 14, 54, 62, 65, 143–4
plays and films 16, 93, 94, 255, 257
and Riverside proposals 176, 192
at RSC 62, 65, 107, 110, 113, 144, 149–50, 158
in Truly Madly Deeply 138, 143–8
Stone, Laurie 102
Stone, Oliver 217
Stoppard, Tom 22
Strange Days 148
Stratford-upon-Avon
The Other Place 104, 107, 108
Theatre Royal 45, 62–3
Sturua, Robert 165, 166
Suchet, David 61, 64
Sugarman, Sara 90
Summer Party, The (Poliakoff) 73–4
Sunday Express 139, 166, 222
Sunday Mercury 61
Sunday Telegraph 61, 97, 102, 116
Sunday Times 153, 155, 167, 258
Sunset Boulevard (Lloyd Webber) 110, 153
Suzman, Janet 187
Sweet Panic (Poliakoff) 152
Swinton, Tilda 149
Tango At The End Of Winter (Shimuzu/Barnes) 60, 152–6
Tarantino, Quentin 234, 246
Tatler 152
Taylor, Paul 178
Tebbit, Norman 6, 85
Tempest, The (Shakespeare) 48, 62–8, 254
Thatcher, Margaret 6, 85
Théâtre de Complicite 205
Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London 253, 259
Theatre Royal, Stratford East 137, 254
There’s A Girl In My Soup 55
Thérèse Raquin 69–72, 80, 121, 133
Thin Lizzy 60
Third Man, The 206
Thomas, Edward 94, 95
Thomas, Sian 244
Thompson 225
Thompson, Emma 102, 156, 218, 221, 224–8, 230, 243–4, 246, 269
Diaries 228–30
Thompson, Eric 244
Thompson, Sophie 244
Thorneycroft, Anthony 162–3
Time Out 108, 116, 117, 178, 189, 190
Times, The 2, 28, 35, 68, 105, 115, 155, 163, 168, 178, 222, 256
Times magazine, The 274, 275
Tinker, Jack 105, 155, 163, 167, 222
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Le Carré) 72
Topper, Jenny 14, 77, 269, 278, 281
Tribune 95
Trick To Catch An Old One, A (Middleton) 106
Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare) 105
Trollope, Anthony 82
Truly Madly Deeply 16, 73, 138, 139, 143–8, 149–50, 153, 158, 225, 227, 257
Tubular Bells II (Oldfield) 169
Turner, Colin 12, 25, 33–6, 47, 48, 51, 218
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare) 34, 169, 177
2001: A Space Odyssey 94
Ubu Rex (Jarry) 60
Ullman, Tracey 87, 98
Unreel 46
Upstairs Downstairs 70
Vagabonds Act (1572) 37
Valmont 111, 114
Variety 149, 220–1, 238, 246
Venables, Clare 56
Venice Film Festival 245
Vibert, Ronan 154
Victoria Wood with all the Trimmings 260
Vidal, Gore 164
Vienna 206
A View from the Bridge (Miller) 55
Walker, Polly 246
Wallach, Eli 134
Walter, Harriet 14, 15, 79, 98, 99, 102, 127–8, 144, 230–1
Wanamaker, Zoë 267
Warden, The (Trollope) 81
Wardle, Irving 68, 105, 115
Warner, David 240
Warner, Deborah 176, 177
Washbourne, Mona 71
Wax, Ruby
on AR 213
as AR’s protégée 3, 57–8, 93, 162–3
at Bristol Old Vic 60
friendship with AR 14, 16, 19, 57–8, 65, 146, 262
Raw Produce 158
and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 137
at RSC 16, 19, 57–8, 65, 146, 262
on TV 93
Wax Acts 162–3, 221
Way of the World, The (Congreve) 177
Wedekind, Frank 74–5
West Acton First School 28–9, 30
West London Free Press 50
West London Observer 7
West of Suez (Osborne) 53
West, Timothy 91, 187
West Yorkshire Playhouse 5, 62, 177, 221–2
When I Was A Girl I Used To Scream And Shout (Macdonald) 77
Whitehouse, Mary 56–7
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Albee) 34, 251
Williams, Clifford 62–5, 281
Williams, Kenneth 92
Willis, Bruce 16, 119, 121–7, 168, 267
Wilson, A.N. 104
Wilson, August 110
Wilson, Patrick (Paddy) 14, 55–6, 252
Wilson, Richard 45, 62, 68, 76, 78, 93, 103, 176, 221, 254, 259
Wilson, Snoo 11, 87, 88, 98, 107, 238, 270, 276–7
Winslet, Kate 226, 229–30
Winstone, Ray 87
Winter Guest, The (film) 243–5, 247
Winter Guest, The (Macdonald) 177, 221–3, 224
Wise, Greg 226, 228, 229, 246
Wollstonecraft, Mary 21
Woman’s Journal 3, 274, 276
Women Against Pit Closures 180
Women’s Playhouse Trust (WPT) 98, 175, 187, 188–9, 190, 192
Wood, Charles 220
Wood, Victoria 57, 253, 260
Woodchester Mansion, Gloucestershire 268
Woodeson, Nicholas 54
Woodthorpe, Peter 91
Woolrich, Cornell 225
Workers’ Revolutionary Party 12
Worthington, Brian 38
Wright, Jules
on AR 3, 4, 5, 9, 18, 98–101, 134, 247, 279, 280
on Riverside proposals 98, 157, 173–4, 175, 178, 179, 180–5, 187, 188–92, 214
X-Men 269
Yamashta, Stomu 108
Yentob, Alan 176
Young, B.A. 68, 79
Zola, Émile 69
Zulu 136, 141