2 h. ago Tilda Swinton and Gary Oldman set for Royal Court's 70th anniversary season

The Royal Court’s big celebratory year in 2026 features a host of top talent and rising stars

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2 h. ago Tilda Swinton and Gary Oldman return to stage for Royal Court’s 70th anniversary

Tilda Swinton’s performance marks 30 years since audiences last saw her tread the boards, meanwhile Gary Oldman will be in Krapp’s Last TapeTilda Swinton will return to the stage for the first time in more than 30 years as part of the Royal Court’s 70th anniversary programme, in a reprisal of her 1988 one-woman performance in Manfred Karge’s Man to Man.Swinton’s return to the role, in which she plays a widow who takes on the identity of her deceased husband, is one of two star turns in David Byrne’s third season as artistic director, which will also feature Gary Oldman in another revival: Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, which was first performed in 1958. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Sir Gary Oldman and Tilda Swinton part of Royal Court’s 70th anniversary season

Sir Gary will star in and direct Samuel Beckett play Krapp’s Last Tape.

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3 h. ago Tilda Swinton & Gary Oldman Return To The London Stage To Celebrate The Royal Court Theatre’s 70th Anniversary

Tilda Swinton & Gary Oldman Return To The London Stage To Celebrate The Royal Court Theatre’s 70th Anniversary  Deadline

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7 d. ago ‘I went to 43 funerals that year’: Tilda Swinton on importance of AIDS awareness

"I went to 43 funerals that year [1994] - that was what our life was like back then", actor Tilda Swinton said as she recalls living through the AIDS crisis.

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1 week ago Ballad of a Small Player review – Colin Farrell seeks redemption in Edward Berger’s high

Debts, secrets and a cartoonish Tilda Swinton catch up with Farrell’s self-styled ‘Lord Doyle’ as he confronts his own destiny in a chance to win salvationThe vast emptiness of luxury hotels is part of the mystery and spectacle of Edward Berger’s intriguing if static and overwrought psychological drama-thriller; it is about a desperate chancer and gambling addict, faced with the metaphysical crisis of renewing or annulling his existence by staking everything on a single bet. Screenwriter Rowan Joffe adapts the 2014 novel by Lawrence Osborne, whose title is ironic. He would not have these problems if he really was a small player. He is a big player and a big loser, although his smallness comes through in other ways.Colin Farrell plays a professional gambler who styles himself “Lord Doyle”, adrift in the Chinese gambling mecca of Macau, the Asian Vegas; he is a despised “gweilo” or foreign ghost. Farrell shows us a seedy guy with an outrageously spivvy moustache and a flop sweat, runn...

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2 w. ago ‘It’s like fencing with a close friend. Terrifying in a lovely way’: Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton on taking a gamble with their new drama

The actors star in Edward Berger’s woozy casino film Ballad of a Small Player. Amid the opulence of a Macau hotel, they talk risk, addiction and Fabergé eggsOn a humid morning in Macau, a blue-and-orange phoenix embellished with more than 60,000 flowers is hatching from an enormous pink Fabergé egg in the lobby of the Wynn Palace hotel. The haughty bird basks in the attention of onlookers as it rotates on a diamond-encrusted perch to the triumphant sound of clarions, before returning to its shell. Chancing upon this spectacle, you think to yourself, “How lucky that I was passing at that precise moment!” Stick around and you will be disabused of your sense of good fortune: the hatching occurs every 15 minutes without fail.It is summer 2024, and Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton are guests here while shooting Ballad of a Small Player, directed by Edward Berger (Conclave) and based on Lawrence Osborne’s clammy 2014 novel about ghosts, guilt and gambling. Farrell plays Brendan Reilly, an ...

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2 w. ago London Film Festival 2025 Red Carpet: Kerry Washington, Tilda Swinton and More Celebrity Style, Photos

London Film Festival 2025 Red Carpet: Kerry Washington, Tilda Swinton and More Celebrity Style, Photos  WWD

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