Video: Alastair Mackenzie in Trailer for "The Priory" at Royal Court Theatre

Check it out! Alastair Mackenzie in the new trailer for "The Priory"!




Jeremy Herrin's production of The Priory by Michael Wynne opens NOVEMBER 19 at Royal Court Theatre and is described as follows:

Kate is delighted when she finds a country retreat that ticks all the boxes. Gathering together a select group of her closest friends to celebrate New Year's Eve, she is keen to start 2010 afresh. But successful, stressed-out thirtysomethings in search of a good time in the sticks can make for one very fearsome party... and some surprising resolutions.

Michael Wynne's buoyant new comedy takes a microscope to modern dilemmas about life, love and retro board games.Michael Wynne's previous plays include The People Are Friendly and The Knocky for the Royal Court, and Sell Out, Dirty Wonderland and The Boy Who Left Home. He also co-wrote the film My Summer of Love.

Director Jeremy Herrin's recent work includes Tusk Tusk, The Vertical Hour and That Face, all at the Royal Court.

Tickets are going fast, book now! Looks wonderful, wish I could be there opening night but safe to say we are all pulling for you... GO AL GO!!! xxxx

Colin Kennedy's "I Love Luci" Part of Encounters Short Film Festival Scottish Showcase

I'm still reeling a bit and I know this is woefully late in coming sorry :( but the Encounters short film festival is taking place this weekend in Bristol. This is of some note because lucky delegates and industry members will be treated to a special "Scottish Showcase" which features some of the latest coming out of Scotland including none other than Colin Kennedy's I Love Luci! The film, written and directed by Colin and produced by Brian Coffey, is due to show on Friday, November 20.
You can learn more about Luci via Colin's blog here
or at the official Facebook group here.
woot!Sigma is well noted for their short film background, and I am fully confident this showing bodes well for the future of Luci in the days and months to come!

One random and unexpected delight turned up while reading the program, and it involves incredibly JAMIE SIVES! Yes, The Knickerman short film is screening Thursday, November 17th heee! classic...and speaking of pants :p those bellbottom type jeans Jamie sports in this film are hysterical...oh he wears them well lol but it looks so outdated now ...wonder if he got to keep those (or they were his own to begin with, I think most of us if we are honest probably owned a pair similar to those lol ) If you can't make it to the festival you can watch the entire thing below :D

The Knickerman from sonja phillips on Vimeo.

I tried to find some appropriate quote or passage from a novel or script that can better express my all my emotion, gratitude and sincere appreciation over the kind words of comfort expressed to me in the post below, but... I can't.
So please just let me simply say THANK YOU SO MUCH

and to Colin and the wonderful people at Sigma, words defy but I think you know...thank you.

sorry for the absence

I wish to apologise for my absence and delay on posting of things these past few weeks because...this week, my mom died.

there. Ive written it. cold words on a blank page for a cold fact that she lost her battle against ALS which is cold crappy horrible disease, but then again so are most terminal diseases...yes the brain tells me these facts, the heart is having a hard time accepting them as reality. While with the hours of driving back and forth, being caregiver, being rather on autopilot and away from much of what I love my friends and watching in some sort of abstract life parade before me, the last few months have been...really hard, at times horrible ...but I can only imagine what it was like for her....unable to move to speech to feel to express in the old manner we all take for granted- worse lovely generous wonderful person she was, mom was far more worried about my dad my brother and I than herself and it breaks my heart, just breaks it breaks it breaks it. I dont know what to say now.

I do know I've missed loads of things of late, such as the baftas (disappointed that NTK didnt win) or the official release of Spread on dvd or Dougrays new film with RJ or new pics from eagle or lunas awesome meeting with Colin Farrell at Seville or the Clash of titans teaser trailer (someone PLEASE find pic of my beloved Jamie Sives in this movie I've been searching for months and ugggh nothing gah) and most especially I feel Ive not been keeping up with Sigma-for this I very much regret and hope to back writing about very soon.
Sorry again
Sue

Seville Film Festival: New Clip, New Poster for Triage with Colin Farrell & Jamie Sives

Hellooo Luna :) This is for you (...well for all of us Jamie fans really lol:D !) As Triage is due to screen tomorrow at the Seville Film festival, there is a new clip from the film now online with Jamie Sives and Colin Farrell (in Spanish). UPDATE: A SECOND NEW CLIP, this heavy on Jamie and Kelly Reilly with Colin is online here. Also thanks to the ever gracious ColinFarrellFansite, we can now see the new Triage poster -gorgeous high res on my flickr here - which features mostly Colin...however on the bottom right ...covered with all the details is the lone photo of Jamie lol Dunno if he will make an appearance(Colin, Paz and Mr. Lee confirmed to attend) but hope springs eternal, plus with Inverness next week...hope!

First Photos of Alastair Mackenzie in "The Priory"

Happy November everyone (if yall havent given up on me) Sorry for the sporatic nature of posting of late and delay on posting this when they were announced a few days ago, but to start off the month on a proper good foot, there is some proper good news....the first photos of Sigma's own Alastair Mackenzie in Jeremy Herrin's production of Michael Wynne's "The Priory." The pics are two from a recent promo shoot, Im just thrilled...and look Al is checking out his iPhone :D This news was announced by the Royal Court on their Twitter here, with the Facebook group here, and tickets (going fast!) can be purchased at this link.

One Night in Emergency to air in Scotland before Christmas

A quick followup on a few things. First, as noted when we first saw the BBC release on One Night in Emergency, it indicated the program was to air 'later in the fall.' Thanks much to the good folks at Kevin McKidd Online for steering me to this article on Silver River productions (team behind ONIE) which reads:

Silver River’s first drama, One Night In Emergency, goes out on BBC Scotland before Christmas and has been lined up for a network slot next year. The 60-minute drama is a modern interpretation of Homer’s The Odyssey set within a hospital and has a twist “like The Sixth Sense”. It stars Grey’s Anatomy’s Kevin McKidd and Michelle Ryan.

Tickets are available for the screening of ONIE at the Inverness Film Festival in a few weeks (Nov. 13) at this link. No word if Jamie or how many of cast and crew will be there for this. Hopefully some kind soul will send in or release photos /report from the event!

Hope does remain there will be a good showing of cast/crew for the Scottish premiere of Valhalla Rising at the same film festival as noted below, it will be the closing gala event on the 15th. Ticket info here ALONG WITH WALLPAPER for the event here smaller/larger