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	SHER BIOG
		Sher has gone on record saying that his interest in wildlife has influenced how he looks at a character, for example in his theatre diary 'Year of the King' he was inspired by the "bottled spider" image.
		Research has taken Antony Sher to some interesting places for example when he researched 'Macbeth' he talked to murderers 'inside' and when researching Richard III disabiltiy he visited psychiatric hospitals.
		In August 2000, Antony Sher was given the high accolade of a knighthood.
	fanfsher.tripod.com /web/sherbio.html (343 words)

	The Sunday Telegraph: Antony Sher comes in from the cold His knighthood is a sign that, at 50, he has finally been ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Sunday Telegraph: Antony Sher comes in from the cold His knighthood is a sign that, at 50, he has finally been accepted.
		Antony Sher comes in from the cold His knighthood is a sign that, at 50, he has finally been accepted.
		Sir Antony Sher, who has just been knighted, almost lost his title before it was bestowed on him.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:80819347&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (282 words)

	Knitting Circle Antony Sher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		August 2000 that Antony Sher was to be awarded Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to the arts, as an actor and writer, and that he would be known as Sir Antony Sher, KBE, after his investiture later in the year.
		Included with the article is a colour reproduction of a watercolour by Antony Sher of the Umbrian landscape.
		An article in which Antony Sher describes his trip with the RSC to play Macbeth, at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas at New Haven, Connecticut, and his subsequent holiday, in Massachusetts, whale watching, with his boyfriend, Gregory Doran, and a weekend in New York.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/antonysher.html (1725 words)

	The Sunday Telegraph : Antony Sher comes in from the cold His knighthood is a sign that, at 50, he has finally been ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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	village voice > theater > Primo by Michael Feingold
		Antony Sher is an English actor, and the great virtue of Primo, his one-man show based on the writings of Primo Levi, is a characteristically English virtue: discretion.
		While the grip of the text, with its instant evocation of this nightmare life, is infallible and sustained, long stretches of Sher's urbane reading feel paler than they should, lacking the pain that lies behind Levi's immaculately balanced phrases: Words that could only have been written in blood appear to float by on water.
		Sher undertook this work out of devotion to the blazing ice-cold truth that Levi's writing carries; he deserves respect.
	www.villagevoice.com /theater/0528,feingold,65875,11.html (794 words)

	The Birmingham Post (England) : Arts: SHER JOY TO SEE; For a man with a reputation of being difficult, Richard Edmonds ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Arts: SHER JOY TO SEE; For a man with a reputation of being difficult, Richard Edmonds finds Antony Sher a pleasure to meet and a revelation to watch on stage.
		To watch Antony Sher hold an audience in the palm of his hand is to experience some of the finest acting around today.
		Sher is impossible to categorise, being at once an actor at the top of his profession, a highly' with a FREE Trial for instant access »
	static.highbeam.com /t/thebirminghampostengland/january161999/artssherjoytoseeforamanwithareputationofbeingdiffi/index.html (416 words)

	Primo / A Raisin in the Sun / The Dresser \| Theatre Reviews \| tobyyoung.co.uk
		The set consists of a few grey walls and Antony Sher's costume is just a sleeveless cardigan and a pair of slacks, as if any direct reference to Auschwitz, where Levi was imprisoned for two years, would be unspeakably vulgar.
		You long for Sher to lose his temper, to give vent to the rage that is always just beneath the character's surface, and his refusal to do so eventually forces you to supply the missing element yourself.
		In other words, Antony Sher and Richard Wilson want the audience to leave the theatre with a burning sense of outrage, determined that nothing like this should ever happen again.
	www.tobyyoung.co.uk /index.php?1&a=449 (864 words)

	New York Daily News - Theater - Sir Antony Sher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Sher himself adapted the one-man play from "If This Is a Man," Primo Levi's harrowing first-hand account of the 10 months he spent in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
		Born in South Africa in 1949, Sher is best known for his formidable stage work, though he has made many film and TV appearances, written four novels, theater journals, an autobiography and another play, "I.D." He's also a gifted painter and sketch artist.
		Sher was so shy growing up he once referred to himself as a "sensitive little nerd." He was sent to elocution classes to help him break out of his shell.
	www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/theater/story/328694p-280889c.html (290 words)

	entertainment.iafrica.com \| art & stage \| theatre Primo
		Sir Antony Sher's return to a Cape Town stage has local theatre audiences in a tizz, and with good reason.
		Sher has adapted it for the stage himself, in what turned out to be an intensely personal journey for both himself and director Richard Wilson.
		I can only say that Antony Sher's production is a fitting tribute to one of the 20th century's greatest humanists, and a fitting memorial to all who have suffered because of human evil.
	entertainment.iafrica.com /artzine/theatre/403748.htm (605 words)

	Othello RSC Sher, a CurtainUp London review
		Sello Maake ka Ncube as Othello and Antony Sher as Iago
		Sher dominates the earlier scenes as the poisonous, though plausible, Iago: bristling, bluff, matey, but so military that his forehead is permanently creased by his stiff peaked cap.
		Sher hints that we could think of Iago as someone astonished at his own power and risking more and more as he succeeds in his increasingly wicked schemes, rather than as the one-dimensional Mystery play Devil who is merely malice personified.
	www.curtainup.com /othellorscscher.html (1105 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Review: Primo Time by Antony Sher
		Antony Sher's one-man show of If This is a Man, performed at the National Theatre last autumn, provoked a similar, reverential hush from the audience followed by long applause.
		Equally disappointing, Sher uses the term "Holocaust", which Levi abhorred ("holocaust", in Greek, meant a sacrificial burnt offering to the gods; even by the barbarous standards of antiquity the Nazi genocide was not a ritual offering of victims).
		At one point, Sher relates how he made himself sick after an exceptionally "fine" dinner of Gevrey-Chambertin wine and lamb stew; he did not want to put on weight for his portrayal of an Auschwitz survivor.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1449528,00.html (624 words)

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		Sher has television and film credits to his name but as of yet he has not hit the international scene, unlike Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi.
		Antony Sher is to play Iago in 'Othello' next year.
		Antony Sher's first play is to be performed at the Almeida theatre in London's West End.
	fanfsher.tripod.com /web/sherhm.html (634 words)

	RSC Macbeth on stage in Stratford theatre - ticket buying and theater guide
		Sher is an essentially external actor: he needs something to bounce off.
		But what Sher also captures is Macbeth's intelligence, his knowledge of just what he is doing and exactly how much it is going to cost him...
		Sher is superbly supported by Harriet Walter as his haughtily aristocratic wife.
	www.albemarle-london.com /rsc-macbeth2000.html (1216 words)

	Q-online - Entertainment: Antony Sher, the gay yid from Cape Town who became a knight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Despite its easy and often humorous style, Sher digs deep, talking about everything from his one-time cocaine addiction and his new-found stage fright to his need to achieve, his being caught between his mother’s conviction that he was destined for greatness and his father’s apparent indifference to his artistic aspirations.
		There is pain in Sher’s portrayal of his father, but also a kind of rapprochement with the ghost of the man whose death and its aftermath is a structuring motif of the book.
		Sher speaks in Beside Myself about his initial fascination as an actor with make-up, the transformation of his features — as though he wanted to be someone other than himself.
	www.q.co.za /2001/2001/05/18-anthonysher.html (1482 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Primo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In adapting for the stage "If This Is a Man," the late Italian chemist and writer's account of his years in Auschwitz, Antony Sher has absorbed that profound respect for the process, translating the essence of Levi's experience with a calm acuity that makes the material all the more penetrating.
		Among the most important personal records of the Holocaust and the most eloquent writings of the 20th century, Levi's books are notable as much for their humanity and compassion as for their analytical detachment, channeling the practicality and precision of a scientific technician through simple, direct language to describe the horrors he endured.
		Sher chooses not to acknowledge the bitter irony that after surviving Auschwitz, Levi -- who suffered from periodic depression throughout his life -- committed suicide in 1987.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117927623?categoryid=1265 (857 words)

	Primo, Broadway Review, New York Theatre Guide - Online
		Written by: Adapted by Antony Sher from the memoir 'Survival in Auschwitz' by Primo Levi.
		My point in reciting these credits is that almost all Sher’s performances have been great and—except for Stanley and the paltry list of movie and TV appearances—none have been seen in New York.
		My favorite is Sher depicting himself as a tiny Richard III cowering before the overwhelming image of Laurence Olivier in the same role.
	www.newyorktheatreguide.com /reviews/primo05.htm (794 words)

	American Theater Web - Find theaters, Broadway shows, and musicals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Antony Sher delivers a beautifully restrained performance as Holocaust survivor Primo Levi in this acclaimed National Theatre import.
		It is impossible to imagine anyone but Antony Sher performing Primo, his masterful adaptation of Primo Levi's Holocaust memoir...
		Antony Sher is extraordinary in "Primo," his crystalline adaptation of Primo Levi's memoir about the months he spent at Auschwitz.
	www.americantheaterweb.com /news/pressbook2.asp?id=5804821 (317 words)

	Entertainment News : Antony Sher on the silence of Auschwitz, ( Kerala news, India News,Us,UK,Kerala Shopping,Onam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Sher, hailed as one of the great Shakespearean actors of his generation for his portrayals of Macbeth and Richard III, finds the playing of Primo Levi so draining that New York will mark his last performance of the book he adapted.
		Sher, who researched Macbeth by interviewing murderers in prison and Richard III by visiting psychiatric hospitals, discovered the survivor's approach worked perfectly for him on stage.
		Sher, acclaimed as much for his novels and paintings as he is for his roles in films like "Shakespeare in Love", found that playing Levi helped cure his stage fright.
	www.keralanext.com /news?id=231649 (751 words)

	The Big Interview: Sir Antony Sher \| London Theatre Guide
		The lead role of Tsafendas was never one that Sher wanted or intended to play, “We were all resolved that I shouldn’t play the part”, but it was a role that Sher could identify with.
		He is also now officially known as Sir Antony Sher KBE: he was knighted in 2000 for his contribution to the arts as an actor and a writer.
		Sher screamed as he dropped the bowling ball on his leg.
	www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk /news/biginterview/display/cm/contentId/73310 (1335 words)

	Antony Sher, Novel Writing and the 'literary establishment'
		A writer of necessity distrusts the establishment in almost any guise, and since his / her writings are often against any sense of 'establishment values' there's always a likelihood they won't be picked up by publishers who of course are part of large corporations.
		I move ever closer to the thought of starting an independent press to publish the wondrous novels the 'establishment' rejects (I was interested to see recently that Margaret Atwood has run such a press for years, even issuing some of her own work).
		Antony Sher is shifting to plays and screenplays.
	www.martingoodman.com /writing131004.htm (323 words)

	All About Jewish Theatre - Sir Antony Sher speaks to Judi Herman about his relationship with Primo Levi
		Distinguished actor and writer Sir Antony Sher's one-man play 'Primo' based on Primo Levi's 'If This Is A Man', has been playing at the Hampstead Theatre, after transferring from the National Theatre and also playing in his native South Africa.
		As Sher prepared to launch his book ‘Primo Time’, telling the story behind the show, at London's Jewish Book Week on 13 March, he has been in conversation with Judi Herman.
		Sher told her how he first thought of adapting Levi’s book for the stage in 1989, when he was playing the title role in the original production of Peter Flannery’s play ‘Singer’, which opens with a scene set in Auschwitz.
	www.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=1258 (2061 words)

	The British Theatre Guide : Reviews - Othello (Swan, Stratford)
		Sher as Iago makes explicit the racism, affecting a simian roll when speaking of his superior.
		Good as he is, he is not the technically-accomplished actor Sher is and this shows in the sometimes incomprehensibility of his verse-speaking.
		There's a wonderful moment when Sher puts his arms around her neck and then his hands as if he would strangle her before remembering himself.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /reviews/othellopw-rev.htm (736 words)

	I.D. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Noted actor Antony Sher, in his first play, relishes exploring the true story of how Tsafendas, a temporary parliamentary messenger, came to stab to death Hendrik Verwoerd, the Dutch-born "architect of apartheid," in 1966.
		In Sher's hands, it becomes a story of identity -- the "I.D." of the title -- that affects everyone in South Africa in that sorry time.
		Sher makes his Tsafentas a bit too much a crowd-pleaser to be entirely believable, but he is well-accomplished in the art of being ingratiating.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/icopyright_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1994914 (514 words)

	Theatre tickets for the Royal Shakespeare Company's Othello starring Antony Sher on stage in Stratford's Swan Theatre - ...
		Antony Sher's recent credits for the Royal Shakespeare Company include The Roman Actor and The Malcontent (both part of the 2002 Jacobean Season), The Winter's Tale and Macbeth.
		Returning to the RSC to lead the season are Dame Judi Dench who will play the Countess of Rossillion in All's Well That Ends Well and Sir Antony Sher playing Iago in Othello in which he will be joined by his compatriot, leading South African actor Sello Maake ka Ncube.
		Anthony Sher has fulfilled his destiny as Iago, worming his way like a poisonous snake into the beautiful spring marriage of Othello and Desdemona...
	www.albemarle-london.com /rsc-othello.html (926 words)

	Theater News - Reviews: Primo -
		Sher, an actor who approaches no role casually, has considered taking this one on since 1989, when he first read Levi's account of his annus horribilis.
		In performance, Sher is a piston in thinking-man's clothing, building on his general approach with myriad specifics.
		Sher's carefully controlled impersonation is the latest in an impressive career that has not often been marked by underplaying.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/6319 (715 words)

	IOL: Sir Antony Sher returns to the Mother City
		Sher was knighted in 2000 for his contribution to the arts.
		Sher left South Africa in 1968 to pursue a career as an actor in Britain.
		Sher developed a reputation as a multifaceted stage actor and also enjoyed success as a screen actor during the 1980s.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=139&art_id=vn20050103063821265C926495 (415 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Review: Primo
		Sher lets Levi do the talking, by retaining in his adaptation and delivery all the plaintive, poetic qualities of the original writing.
		Sher's devotion to Levi cannot be questioned; the wisdom in presenting Levi's work in this manner must be.
		Sher and director Richard Wilson have done nothing to suggest the stifling, oppressive atmosphere of "the house of the dead" that functions almost as another character in Levi's chronicle.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /world/Primo.html (958 words)

	Tartuffe - Moliere, Antony Sher, Nigel Hawthorne 1983
		The acutely brilliant Sir Antony Sher is herein as acutely brilliant as ever before or since.
		Sher is unquestionably a Tartuffe that would find love with Molière himself.
		As comedy is the voice the clever mind at muse, so Antony Sher is the voice, and Molière his muse; and this is a clear masterwork of humour.
	www.learmedia.ca /product_info.php/products_id/129 (616 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Drama - Home
		Home was shot in story order, and Antony Sher was alone in the room during the scenes where Ballantyne is recording his journal.
		Both Antony Sher and Curson-Smith researched exhaustively prior to the two-week shoot, visiting Polar explorers, food scientists and agoraphobics in order to get a precise picture of the various elements which make up Ballantyne.
		The results are exceptional and Sher delivers a disturbingly naturalistic performance, and even when the adaptation ventures into the avant-garde he remains chillingly believable as a mad, middle-class messiah.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/cinema/features/home.shtml (397 words)

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