the body in the library geraldine mcewan

In the same season Judi Dench and Derek Jacobi also made their debuts as directors. McEwan's contribution was a light romantic staging of As You Like It, with Kenneth Branagh playing Touchstone as an Edwardian music hall comedian. She made her directing debut in 1988 with the Renaissance Theatre Company's touring season, Renaissance Shakespeare on the Road, co-produced with the Birmingham Rep, and ending with a three-month repertory programme at the Phoenix Theatre in London. McEwan worked more than once with Laurence Olivier on both stage and screen, most notably in The Dance of Death staged by Glen Byam Shaw for the National Theatre at the Old Vic in February 1967. She appeared with Kenneth Williams in the original 1965 production of Loot by Joe Orton, which closed at the Wimbledon Theatre before reaching London. She spent several seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late 1950s and early 1960s, playing in many of the Shakespeare comedies her roles included a rendition of Olivia in Twelfth Night in 1958. Her career blossomed, with performances in such award-winning productions as The Rivals, The Way of the World and The Chairs.

She made her first West End appearance at the Vaudeville Theatre on 4 April 1951 as Christina Deed in Who Goes There!, which was markedly successful. She made her first appearance on the Windsor stage in October 1946 as an attendant of Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream and played many parts with the Windsor Repertory Company from March 1949 to March 1951, including a role in the Ruth Gordon bio play Years Ago opposite guest player John Clark. McEwan has not remarried since Cruttwell's death in 2002.Īs a teenager McEwan became interested in theatre and her extensive theatrical career began at 14 as assistant stage manager at the Theatre Royal, Windsor. They have a son Greg, who is an actor and screenwriter, and daughter Claudia. In 1953 she married the former principal of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Hugh Cruttwell, whom she first met while working at the Theatre Royal, Windsor.

She attended Windsor County Girls' School, then a private school, on a scholarship and took elocution lessons. McEwan was born Geraldine McKeown on in Old Windsor, Berkshire, England to Donald and Norah (née Burns) McKeown.

4.1 Playing Miss Marple in Marple, ITV, 2004-2008.

The body in the library geraldine mcewan