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THEATRE Entertaining Strangers by David Edgar. National Theatre. Dench and Pigott-Smith dominate a large and hardworking National Theatre cast, all of whose members, under Hall’s superbly visual direction, brilliantly rise to create a major event in the theatre. Clive Hirschorn/Sunday Express Henry Moule himself, played with complete conviction by Tim Pigott-Smith manages to be both ridiculous and serious – a considerable and subtle achievement by the actor. Chalrles Edwards/Spectator Amadeus. Compass. National Tour. Richard McCabe/ Mozart, Toyah Willcox/Constanze. …a tremendous production of one of the truly great modern plays. Neil Kerr/ Nottingham Evening Telegraph. Dream of a show. Tim Pigott-Smith – breathtaking. Nottingham Chronicle Breathtaking theatrical experience. Newark Advertiser It’s a remarkable performance from Tim Pigott-Smith. Emrys Bryson/Nottingham Evening Post Old Times. By Harold Pinter. Birmingham Rep. Estelle Kohler & Carol Royle Tim Pigott-Smith is equally impressive as her husband. Charles Spencer/Telegraph Tim Pigott-Smith’s excellent Deeley starts as a suave, smooth figure who, finding his queen under threat disintegrates into someone coarse brutal and terrified. Michael Billington/Guardian Retreat by James Saunders. Orange Tree. With Victoria Hamilton. …quite marvellously played by Victoria Hamilton and Tim Pigott-Smith who appears as an old softie with a toothey smile for as long as he is in control, and turns brutally powerful once he emerges as defencelessly fragile. Robert Hewitson/Sunday Times Tim Pigott-Smith is … very fine. Paul Taylor/Independent Wonderfully played by Tim Pigott-Smith. Sheridan Morley/Spectator Tim Pigott-Smith is formidable, holding the stage with his magnetic presence that this newly arrived actress (Victoria Hamilton) stands up against as an equal sparring partner. London Theatre Review. The Letter. Lyric Hammersmith. With Joanna Lumley, Neil Stacey, Benedict Wong. Now observe Tim Pigott-Smith as the lawyer. Maugham’s writing suggests merely a decent chap in a sticky situation; Tim Pigott-Smith turns this into a study of honour under siege. He places his pauses menacingly, as if they were anti-personnel mines; then his veneer cracks apart to reveal a ratty sense of insecurity and racial condescension.. And yet you feel that Tim Pigott-Smith is enriching a flat text rather than drawing sustenance from it. John Peter/Sunday Times The Iceman Cometh. Almeida. Kevin Spacey, Clarke PetersJames, Hazeldine, Patrick Godfrey. The
Almeida presents a superb company, led by Spacey and an outstanding Tim
Pigott-Smith, … a barely recognisable Tim Pigott-Smith, his bald pate surrounded by greying tufts of unruly hair, catches exactly the wearying nihilism of the lapsed agitator. Seeing through Hickey, he also observes the disruption he causes with cackling, mordant glee. Michael Billington/Guardian Tim Pigott-Smith is ripe for superlatives… Nicholas de Jongh/Evening Standard Five Kinds of Silence by Shelagh Stephenson. Lyric Hammersmith. With Linda Bassett, Gina McKee, Lizzie McInnerny. Tim Pigott-Smith's Billy chillingly incarnates menace. Tim Pigott-Smith gives a terrifying portrayal of a man who haunts himself. Julius Caesar. Royal Shakespeare Company. Tim Pigott-Smith is an excellent foil as a hotheaded but flaky Cassius. The point about Cassius, which Tim Pigott-Smith so brilliantly seizes, is that far from thinking too much, he is a man of instinct and intuition… he is big, heavy, hugely authoritative… it is not the body but the body language that speaks. Of such casting are great performances born. John Peter/Sunday Times Christmas Carol. Lyric Hammersmith December 2002. And in Tim Pigott-Smith, the production has the “perfect” Scrooge”, said Lyn Gardner in The Guardian, “More fool than villain, Tim Pigott-Smith is never ingratiating, and he succeeds in making your heart crack for a man it is impossible to really like. Tim Pigott-Smith makes a really marvellous Ebenezer. John Martland/The Stage Tim Pigott-Smith is a fine Scrooge. Robert Hewitson/The Sunday Times Tim Pigott-Smith is a perfect Scrooge. Susannah Clapp/The Observer Tim Pigott-Smith’s screwed up Scrooge takes misery to the max, and makes the transformation from gloomy counting house grouch to beaming beneficence a joy to behold. When his Scrooge dances with joy and whoops “I’m a baby!” you feel re-born as well. What’s On Holding it together is a superb Tim Pigott-Smith, utterly miserable and able to convey the full transformative power of his Christmas visions. Metro London The children were in hysterics. Georgina Brown/Mail on Sunday TELEVISION The Chief. Tim Pigott-Smith as John Stafford Chief Constable of Eastland. Tim Pigott-Smith looks every inch a top cop. Avril Martin/Glasgow Herald …and the central performance will surely create a demand for as many series as Tim Pigott-Smith is willing to make. Radio Times Put your hands together please for the return of Tim Pigott-Smith as The Chief. Chris Rundle/Western Daily Press The excellent Tim Pigott-Smith. Lancashire Evening Post …this second series has become, if not required, certainly welcome viewing. Richard Last/Telegraph Tim Pigott-Smith’s powerful performance combined vulnerability and a tough tetchy authority… he will prove a hard act to follow. Rebecca Hardy The Vice. Frank Vickers – chillingly played by Tim Pigott-Smith. Sunday Times Will Tim Pigott-Smith ever be able to throw off that sneering leer? Tim Pigott-Smith certainly saves the show. Telegraph The
cast react with each other like potassium in acid creating a constant
tension-filled fizz in their dowdy office atmosphere.. but the star of
the show has to be Tim Pigott-Smith as the abhorrent and completely contemptible Frank
Vickers, you just love to hate him. Kavanagh QC - The Edge of Law Lean and lethal Tim Pigott-Smith shot off down varios dark and devious burrows, and emerged licking his thin lips. He was very good indeed. Nancy Banks-Smith/The Guardian It was Tim Pigott-Smith that stole the show… quickened the pulse of the drama every time his narrowed eyes reappeared on screen… you guiltily started counting the seconds till his next scene. Joe Joseph/Independent As director… Hamlet in Regent’s Park Damien Lewis/Hamlet, Paul Freeman/Caludius, Pamela Miles/Gertrude, Rebecca Egan/Ophelia. It works. Time Out A thrilling piece of theatre. Metro |