- Title: Simon Callow directs Lily Cole in "The Philanthropist"
- Date: 10th April 2017
- Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR, SIMON CALLOW, SAYING: "They live in a little cloud of their own. They live in their little academic world. They're either in Oxford or Cambridge or somewhere that kind of their ... and the outside world is neither here nor there to them. I think that's unfortunately very true to life for pretty much everybody really. After the initial shock
- Embargoed: 24th April 2017 19:03
- Keywords: Simon Callow The Philanthropist Lily Cole Matt Berry Simon Bird Charlotte Ricthie Christopher Hampton Play Theatre West end London stage actors
- Location: LONDON, ENGLAND, UK
- City: LONDON, ENGLAND, UK
- Country: United Kingdom
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Theatre
- Reuters ID: LVA0036BTHY6L
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Simon Callow directs Christopher Hampton's most celebrated play 'The Philanthropist' at the Trafalgar Studios in London.
Set in a fictional Oxbridge university town the story follows 24 hours in the lives of a group of students wrapped up in their bubble.
The play stars model and actress Lily Cole who described working with Callow as "like being in acting school" before telling Reuters she's happier now that she's returned to acting.
The play also stars some of the UK's most comedic young actors including Matt Berry, Simon Bird, Charlotte Ritchie and Tom Rosenthal.
'The Philanthropist' was first seen at The Royal Court Theatre in 1970 and Callow remembers seeing it then. "It's always stuck in the back of my mind as one of the funniest, most elegant, most sparking, brilliant, most assured pieces of writing and when you think the author was just 23 when he wrote it is kind of astonishing", he said.
'The Philanthropist' runs at the Trafalgar Studios in London from April 3-July 22, 2017. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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