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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 October 2021 source ↗
The morning after the opening of Hamlet in New York in 2000. The reviews were good and I actually punched the air – a very un-Simon Russell Beale thing to do.
When my husband and I first said we loved each other, in our student flat in Cambridge.
When my second child Bella was born in 2006. I missed my son Ben being born because I was racing, so seeing it for the first time was quite an experience.
Last time I was on the dance floor – in Manchester a few weeks ago.
I would have gone to my singing lessons at Guildhall.
Better hearing.
The world we are bequeathing to our children and our children’s children, both climatically and politically.
Ulysses (I’ve only read the good bits).
One was seeing Warren Mitchell in Death of a Salesman when I was 18. I thought it was the most amazing piece of acting. The other was seeing my sister Sorcha (1) in Brian Friel's version of Three Sisters when I was 23. I'd trained as a musician, but I saw that and thought: "Well, now I know how to play Irina (2)." A few years later, I did.
Never making it into a Sondheim musical.
Ice-T, Joss Stone, Keeley Hawes, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Joely Richardson, Paul O'Grady
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