Patrick Stewart ‘Makes It So’ at Oxford???
Date: 19 January 2007
Patrick Stewart has received rapturous reviews this week for his title performance the RSC’s
Antony and Cleopatra, which has transferred to the Novello Theatre, one of impresario Cameron Mackintosh’s playhouses - so it seems especially timely that Stewart has just been named as the next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre based at St Catherine's College, Oxford. Stewart, best known to TV fans as
Star Trek’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard, whose catchphrase is “make it so”, will make his inaugural lecture in April. When accepting the appointment, Stewart said: “I am honoured, delighted, thrilled to bits and tickled pink.” The Chair of Contemporary Theatre, founded through a grant from the Mackintosh Foundation at St Catherine's College, aims to promote interest in, and the study and practice of, contemporary theatre. The Visiting Professorship has previously been held by actors, writers, directors, and producers including Stephen Sondheim, Alan Ayckbourn, Richard Eyre, Diana Rigg, Tim Rice and director Phyllida Lloyd, whom Stewart succeeds. The actor may soon have more reason to celebrate. One of this year’s Theatregoers’ Choice Award nominees, he’s frontrunner in the Best Solo Performance race for his adaptation of Charles Dickens’
A Christmas Carol (click here to vote now!).
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