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Bessie Carter exclusively opened up to PEOPLE about starring in the West End revival of 'Mrs. Warren’s Profession' alongside ...
open image in gallery Famous family: Imelda Staunton pictured with husband Jim Carter and daughter Bessie at the 2005 Academy Awards (Getty) She turns back to Bessie. “We had Vera Drake before ...
When her daughter Bessie was small, Imelda Staunton would read her ... There was never any question as to whether Carter, who is Staunton and her husband’s only child, would go into the family ...
Gin with breakfast, animal abuse and a £1m fortune. A new book says that, far from being penniless eccentrics, the Durrells ...
From Olivier Award winners to massive Disney musicals, these are the must-see shows coming to London’s West End.
The Mitford sisters flirted with fascism, communism, infamy and scandal – now a new drama, based on their biography by Mary Lovell, brings their outrageous behaviour to the screen. Radio Times speaks ...
Mother and daughter Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter are playing Mrs Kitty Warren and her daughter Vivie in George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession. That’s the headline. The result is an ...
There couldn’t be a more capable cast to navigate the gravity shifts. Imelda Staunton reunites with Cooke after last year’s Hello Dolly! – all feline scowl and vinegary jabs until the ...
It's a "sensuous, smart staging" of a "problem play", agreed Alice Saville in The Independent – featuring a "magnificent" performance from Imelda Staunton in the title role. From our morning ...
Written in 1893, George Bernard Shaw's morality play "Mrs Warren's Profession" was so scandalous at the time, it was banned by the Lord Chamberlain and not performed publicly in London until 1925.