, Covent Garden This tranquil churchyard contains the ashes of such diverse talents as Clive Brook , William Wycherley , Edith Evans and Michael Redgrave ( who once had an affair ) , plus Hattie Jacques and Ellen Terry ( who ) . Golders Green Crematorium

from a nervous breakdown , and harassed by her exuberant and utterly mad mother Edith Fromage , who claims to have invented cheese . Nancy Baldwin excels as the loopy Edith , tirelessly and insane . Wilkie puts in a stellar performance as the Jane , while

also directed him the following year at the Lyric Hammersmith in The Trojan Women . Gielgud asked him to read for the role of Edith husband in Rodney stage adaptation of Crime and Punishment , but when he saw him , Gielgud cried : “ I had no idea you were

at the Old Vic to raise funds for some sort of memorial to him . The money raised was supplemented by a generous gift from Edith Evans . From this developed a series of annual competitions between two drama schools , with a prize for a best speech or

. Some of your readers may be aware of the colourful – and often eccentric – past . From 1959 , when owned by Les Girls , Edith Grellier and Jane Knight , it was the perfect rural retreat for their theatrical and showbusiness friends from London . New

Mulhare , was himself transported to Broadway a week later to take over from Rex Harrison as Higgins in My Fair Lady . Dame Edith Evans worked as a milliner at a London store and was an amateur actress in the evening , while Michael Redgrave , Charles Vance

were from all parts of the world – Borges , Pirandello , Ionesco , Yeats , Sartre , Kafka , Nietzsche , de Obaldia , Wilde , Edith Sitwell , Dimitris Lyacos , Aeschylus . The readers / actors included Irving Wardle , Neil Ascherson , John Elsom , Derek Mahon

In 2003 , stars such as Ulrika Jonsson , John Thompson , Ruby Wax and Jo Brand took to the mic and in 2005 Ade Edmondson , Edith Bowman and Kim Medcalf signed up . This year the series will transmit from an Academy in Central London and viewers will watch

of the violin recital as they on stage . But apart from this , the staging and are well done . A highlight is tribute to Edith Piaf , recalling her performance in the role in the London revival in 1993 . Two encores said it all , her 1981 hit Memory

Ali Allen . BAC ( 020 7223 2223 ) Rapunzel by Annie Siddons . December 14 . Management : BAC and Kneehigh . Cast includes : Edith Tankus , Mike Shepherd , Pieter Lawman , Kirsty Woodwood , James Traherne , Paul Hunter . Director : Emma Rice . Designer :