Classics Revisited
After the success of their 1994 production of Middlemarch, director Tom Hooper collaborated with Andrew Davies on George Eliot’s last book, Daniel Deronda. Set in her present day, when it just happened that Britain had a flamboyantly Jewish prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli, it was initially published as a magazine
Actors and Actresses
Michael Gambon, born into a working-class family in Cabra, a suburb of Dublin, did not seem destined for an acting career. He left school at 15 to become an apprentice with an engineering company. His first contact with the theater was when his father, a communist sympathizer, told him to
Classics Revisited
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, by George Eliot was published first as a serial and then in book form in 1872. Fortunately, two centuries and change later, in 1994, Andrew Davies (best known for his Jane Austen adaptations, including Season 1 of Sanditon, and 1995's Pride &
Drama
It’s official: Andrew Davies’ adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon will come to America this January. The new period drama, based on the eleven existing chapters of Austen’s final work will premiere on Masterpiece beginning January 12, 2020. The series stars Rose Williams as spirited heroine