Synopsis
Off Stage
Published by Dewi Lewis Media
100 portaits celebrating RADA – and its stars of stage and screen
To celebrate its centenary RADA, the UK’s world famous drama school, commissioned Cambridge Jones to photograph the most famous actors to have emerged from the school
The list of portraits featured is a dazzling record of contemporary stars of stage and screen, and includes John Hurt, Alan Rickman, Sheila Hancock, Edward Woodward, Sir Ian Holm, Robert Lindsay, Joan Collins, Tom Courtenay, Warren Mitchell, Imelda Staunton, June Whitfield, Richard Briers, Jane Horrocks, Glenda Jackson, Juliet Stevenson, Jonathan Pryce, Kenneth Branagh, Ioan Gruffudd, Susannah York, Timothy Spall, Liza Tarbuck, Michael Kitchen amongst many others
With a foreword by Lord Attenborough, the book includes an introduction by the Observer writer Miranda Sawyer, as well as interviews with all the actors
In total there are 100 portraits by European Photographer of the Year, Cambridge Jones, whose previous commissions include a wide cross-section of well known faces as diverse as Tony Blair in Downing Street to Shania Twain, and Laura Bailey via Youssou 'N Dour in Senegal, London and Spain!