Posted by Bonnie on 8 February 2010 at
08:10
I was very happy to read this morning that Rachael has been nominated in the prestigious 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards.
She's up for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in The Priory, alongside others such as Keira Knightley and Michelle Dockery. It's great to see that her talents have been recognised. The Priory itself is up for the Best New Comedy award as well, so that's a fantastic achievement for the play.
To find out more, go to Broadway.com: London Buzz for the full list of nominees.
Winners will be announced on 21 March 2010 at a ceremony in London.
Good luck, Rachael!
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Posted by Bonnie on 7 February 2010 at
02:36
As promised, here is the first set of screencaps from Boy Meets Girl, which aired in May 2009 on ITV1. These are just from Episode 1, and there are 200 of them, as Rachael was rarely off-screen! I think she actually got more screen time in Boy Meets Girl than she did in Tipping the Velvet.
View the full gallery
I hope you enjoy looking at the screencaps as much as I did taking them. This was a fun one to cap as Rachael makes full use of all her best facial expressions. 
I'll probably do another episode tomorrow, if I get the time, otherwise it'll be later in the week.
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Posted by Bonnie on 6 February 2010 at
11:51
A very belated Happy New Year to all of our visitors. So sorry to have not updated in a few months, but as I'm sure you all know, sometimes life gets in the way. However please know I am very much committed to this website and will always get around to it sooner or later. I am constantly collecting and storing snippets of information, photos, links, news and other stuff in preparation for the next update.
This afternoon and evening I have concentrated on putting some of those bits and pieces onto the website:
As you may have noticed in the calendar, Rachael will be starring alongside Judi Dench in a new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream from Tuesday 9th February – Saturday 20th March, at the Rose Theatre, Kingston. Tickets are still available from the Rose Theatre website. Rachael is playing Helena. Really looking forward to it!
I still don't have much news on Centurion, other than that it's supposed to be released in the UK on 23 April 2010, so not long to wait. I'm not sure whether it'll be general or limited release, though at the moment I'd expect limited release as there hasn't been a great deal of publicity about it at all. I'll update if I have any further news.
I've added some programme scans and promotional images from The Priory to the website, which you can see in the gallery (thanks Evelyn for sending some of these!) along with some great photos from the after party and some very small images from the production itself. To view all of the images for this production, go to the The Priory collection in the gallery. You can also view the promotional trailer for The Priory, which is up on YouTube now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lphmbIPlq9g
I've also finished adding the last of the reviews of the play to the site, and as the play finished recently, it's unlikely there'll be any more. Rachael's next play will start in a few days' time, so I'll expect an influx of new notifications following press night!
The latest and, probably, final reviews of The Priory are as follows:
I've archived some scans of newspaper/magazine articles and also transcribed them for easy searching. These ones are all from 2007 but are a good read, if you have the chance to flick through them.
I've also added an article about Rachael taking a minor tumble on stage performing in The Priory!
Thank goodness she wasn't badly injured!
Another new addition is a TV schedule panel in the sidebar over on the right. If it's working correct, you should be able to see the next scheduled appearance of Rachael on your TV screen, according to the area in which you live. For me, in the UK, it's showing me that Poirot's Five Little Pigs is airing next Saturday on ITV3. Please comment and tell me what it says for you — I'd be very curious to know if it's working correctly for everyone's regions.
That's all for today, but tomorrow, or possibly during the week, I have some video and audio files to add to the site, and I'm also hoping to get some screencapping done, as I have three Rachael DVDs that I have not yet screencapped: The Young Victoria, Boy Meets Girl, and (believe it or not!) Redemption Road.
Yes, I actually have a copy of Redemption Road, thanks to a dear friend of mine, Kayleigh, whose cousin wrote and starred in the film. He has kindly made the film available to me and I'm hoping to be able to let visitors see it, too. I just need to think of the best way of doing it. Thank you to Kayleigh and also to Tony Bluto for letting me use the film.
More updates to follow!
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Posted by Bonnie on 5 February 2010 at
07:39
Just a reminder that we are on both Facebook and Twitter now, so if you have accounts at either of these social networking sites, please add us!
This site will still function in the same way, but you'll just be able to find out about updates more easily if you actively use Facebook or Twitter at the moment.
Look out for some much-needed updates this weekend!
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Posted by Bonnie on 13 December 2009 at
04:17
Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure of meeting Rachael Stirling, at last, after all these years of running the website! I've had the opportunity to say hello before, but have never really wanted to trouble her. However, since I know she's aware of the website, I thought it might be nice to introduce myself at last.
The play we went to see, The Priory, was excellent and we really enjoyed it. I think Rachael thoroughly deserved all of the great reviews and was, for me at least, the star of the show along with Jessica Hynes, who played the lead role. However I may be biased as I'm a big fan of both actresses.
Afterwards we went outside and Jessica was there. We spoke to her for a few minutes and she was absolutely lovely. I asked her if Rachael would be coming out, and she said to hang on for a few minutes and we would probably catch her. So we did, and sure enough, Rachael came out. Unfortunately she was on a phone call so although she was able to scribble a few autographs for some of the eBay autograph sellers (groan), she didn't stop to talk to them, but her call ended before she reached us. I caught her eye and she approached us.
She was absolutely lovely, and when I introduced myself as "Bonnie who runs the website…" she exclaimed "Holy shit!" and then gushed for a few minutes with all sorts of compliments and thanks. She said that this website has actually helped to get her a visa to work over in the USA, and that her agent had given the address to (presumably) the US Embassy for examples of the TV and film work she'd done. That really made me smile. 
She was so kind and sweet, and seemed genuinely happy to see me, which was wonderful. She also said that if I ever need anything answering for the site, or have any more questions, to just send them to her agent and she'd be happy to answer them. Wonderful! It was definitely worth hanging around to meet her at last. I wasn't really bothered about getting autographs and things, but just wanted to say hello and chat to her for a minute, which was what happened. I'm so glad I stayed to meet her.
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