Theater Archives - Bonnie MacBird

November 9, 2014 Creativity, Sherlock Holmes, Theater, Writing 13 Comments

THE IMITATION GAME – Genius at Play

The original writer of TRON muses on the new Alan Turing biopic THE IMITATION GAME…and the beautiful minds of its subject and star. THE IMITATION GAME was screened for Screen Actors’ Guild yesterday followed by a QandA with star Benedict Cumberbatch and the director Morton Tyldum. Thanks to my friend Patty Smiley, I was...

July 23, 2014 Sherlock Holmes, Theater 2 Comments

Playing Against Type: Martin Freeman as Richard III

Every actor wants to be what he or she is not, play what he or she has never played. But we all know actors who keep playing variations of themselves … these are actors with strong personas, usually immensely appealing ones. We return to them over and over, coming home in a sense, to...