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Rachael Stirling in A Christmas Carol reading tomorrow, 6pm, St Paul's Cathedral

Posted by Bonnie at 2.05pm

Rachael Stirling will be taking part in a reading of A Christmas Carol tomorrow evening (30th December 2011) at 6pm on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral, London. Other special guests include Allan Corduner, Alan Cox, Sara Kestleman, Pam Miles, Tim Pigott-Smith and Ian Redford.

It's for Occupy London, part of the Occupy movement: an international protest movement which aims to tackle economic and social inequality.

For more information about the reading, see here: Occupy London presents a reading of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol – 6pm Friday 30 December at the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral.

If you happen to be in London and near St Paul's tomorrow at 6pm, please go along!

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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen trailer released

Posted by Bonnie at 9.27pm

The trailer for the 2012 film Salmon Fishing in the Yemen has been released, and you can view it here: Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt in 'Salmon Fishing in the Yemen' trailer.

As Rachael plays Mary Jones, who is Ewan McGregor's character's wife, it seems unlikely that they will have a happy ending. You'll understand why if you watch the trailer and see his interaction with the character portrayed by Emily Blunt.

The film is due for release in the UK on 9th March 2012.

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Rachael Stirling cast in The Recruiting Officer at the Donmar Warehouse

Posted by Bonnie at 8.08pm

In early 2012, Rachael Stirling will begin rehearsals for a new play, The Recruiting Officer. She has been cast in the role of Melinda. The play will open at the Donmar Warehouse on 14th February 2012 (with previews from 9th February 2012) and is taking bookings until 14th April 2012.

Here is an overview of the play, taken from ATG Tickets:

'Unless we could make ourselves some pleasure amidst the pain, no mortal man would be able to bear it.'

It's with the promise of money, glory and adventure that Captain Plume is recruiting the men of Shrewsbury for the King's army. He's also determined to make a conquest of Sylvia, but as she’s now an heiress she can afford to put him to the test. All the while, the scheming Melinda is toying with the affections of Captain Brazen and the gentleman Mr Worthy.

From military manoeuvring to sexual strategies, Farquhar's triumphant The Recruiting Officer, written in 1706, is an unashamed celebration of love, lustiness and victory in battle and in the bedroom.

Cast:
Nancy Carroll
Mackenzie Crook
Mark Gatiss
Gawn Grainger
Tobias Menzies
Rachael Stirling

Director: Josie Rourke

Tickets are available from £10 at the ATG Tickets website.

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Merry Christmas

Posted by Bonnie at 4.02pm

We would just like to take the opportunity to wish all of our visitors a very Merry Christmas.

Remember that Rachael is on BBC Radio 4 over the festive season, in the play Possession. We will hopefully have it available on the website shortly in case you miss it!

Have a wonderful Christmas and we will be back with more updates soon.

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Possession

Posted by Bonnie at 12.00am

Obscure scholar Roland Michell, researching in the London Library, discovers handwritten drafts of a letter by the prestigious (fictional) Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash, which leads him to suspect that the married Ash had a hitherto unknown romance. He feels compelled to take away the documents secretly — an unprofessional act — and begins to investigate. The trail leads him to Christabel LaMotte, a minor poet and contemporary of Ash, and to Dr. Maud Bailey, a modern LaMotte scholar and distant relative of LaMotte's family, who is drawn into helping Roland with the unfolding mystery. They become obsessed with uncovering the truth and unearth more letters and evidence of an affair between the poets, and their own personal romantic lives — neither of which are happy or even satisfactory — develop and become entwined in an echo of Ash and LaMotte, whose story is told in parallel to theirs.

The news of this affair will make headlines and reputations in academia, and colleagues of Roland and Maud become competitors in the race to discover the truth, for all manner of motives. And the truth is this: Ash's marriage was barren and unconsummated, although he loved and remained devoted to his wife. He and LaMotte had a short, passionate affair resulting in the suicide of LaMotte's companion (and possibly lover) and the secret birth of an illegitimate child, whose existence LaMotte sought to conceal from Ash, but whom he did once meet, unknown to her. As the Great Storm of 1987 strikes England, all the interested parties come together in a dramatic scene at Ash's grave, where documents buried with Ash by his wife are believed to hold the final key to the mystery. Reading them, Maud learns that rather than being related to LaMotte's sister, as she has always believed, she is in fact directly descended from LaMotte and Ash's illegitimate daughter, who was raised by LaMotte's sister and passed off as her own child, and she is therefore heir to their correspondence. Roland, freed from obscurity and a dead-end relationship, manages to live down the potential professional suicide of the theft of the original documents, and sees an academic career open up before him. Maud, who has spent her adult life confused and emotionally untouchable, finds her human side and sees possible future happiness with Roland. And the sad story of Ash and LaMotte, separated by the mores of the day and condemned to secrecy and separation, is resolved at last through Roland and Maud.

Adapted for BBC Radio 4 by Timberlake Wertenbaker.

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