Fiona Shaw

Actor Anjana Vasan: ‘We Are Lady Parts is about embracing your weirdness’
The star of Channel 4’s punk comedy on playing reluctant singer Amina and performing with Paul Mescal in A Streetcar Named Desire
Ammar Kalia
04, Dec, 2022 @9:30 AM

¡Showmanism! review – astonishing lip-sync solo raises spirits
Dickie Beau offers a merry miscellany, featuring stories from Ian McKellen and Fiona Shaw, in a meditation on theatre that is closer to possession than parody
David Jays
24, Nov, 2022 @10:34 AM

Andor review – the best Star Wars show since The Mandalorian
It’s all laser guns and hoverbikes in this gritty, kinetic spy thriller which gives us the backstory to one of Rogue One’s heroes. Once a couple of slow episodes are out of the way, that is …
Jack Seale
21, Sep, 2022 @11:04 AM

The Tempest review – Deborah Warner’s grimy island engrosses and disgusts
Ustinov, Bath
The veteran director’s arrestingly visceral production honours the sheer strangeness of Shakespeare’s late play
The veteran director’s arrestingly visceral production honours the sheer strangeness of Shakespeare’s late play
David Jays
08, Jul, 2022 @9:38 AM

Fiona Shaw: ‘I got to Hollywood at 28 and they said: You’re very old’
The thrilling star of stage continues her TV takeover. As she joins mercilessly dark drama Baptiste, Shaw talks about Fleabag, American burnout – and marriage as a cure for chaos
Emine Saner
14, Jul, 2021 @5:00 AM

‘Life is never what you expect!’ Deborah Warner on theatre, nature and new parenthood
The groundbreaking director’s new project, Arcadia, fills tents with poetry and music in Manchester. She talks about Covid and Brexit, becoming a mother and taking over Bath’s Ustinov
Andrew Dickson
07, Jul, 2021 @5:00 AM

Kindred review – unnerving pregnancy horror delivers on its promise
Fiona Shaw is at her haughty best as a sinister mother-in-law in this racially charged tale of class and captivity
Steve Rose
03, Jul, 2021 @10:00 AM

On my radar: Fiona Shaw’s cultural highlights
The award-winning actor on the genius of Fritz Lang, the human cost of Homer’s Iliad and where to find the best live music in Ireland
Kathryn Bromwich
08, May, 2021 @2:00 PM

Electra, Oresteia and an execution: the daring designs of Hildegard Bechtler – in pictures
The theatre designer on creating a family dinner at Agamemnon’s, an election night Oedipus and the night Fiona Shaw got stuck
David Jays
23, Oct, 2019 @5:00 AM

Killing Eve season two review – riveting psychosexual thriller returns
The show finds Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer orbiting one another again, playing up the show’s penchant for dark comedy and blood-thirst
Jake Nevins
27, Mar, 2019 @6:00 AM

RSVP Nina Simone and Shamima Begum: a dinner party for our times
In Caryl Churchill’s play Top Girls, five famous women from history gather for a dinner party. Who would today’s big names in theatre invite?
Interviews by Kate Wyver
24, Mar, 2019 @3:00 PM

Fiona Shaw: ‘I’m delighted to be in with the young crowd!’
The acclaimed stage actor on the joy of her spymaster role in Killing Eve and playing a therapist in the new series of Fleabag
Michael Hogan
03, Mar, 2019 @8:59 AM
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