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What's going on in the life and career of Kathy Burke
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WOW Festival this weekend
This weekend is the annual WOW (Women of the World) Festival at the Southbank in London and Kathy will be on stage on Saturday afternoon. The festival has been running since 2010 and is focused on “celebrating women and girls, and taking a frank look at the obstacles they face, have taken place across the globe.” It also has a goal: “Challenge the belief that gender equality has already been achieved.” Kathy will be interviewed by WOW founder Jude Kelly on stage at 3.30pm. The blurb is below and you’re interested in attending, you can buy tickets at the WOW website. Kathy Burke in Conversation 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Join Kathy…
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Dawn of the Dead
The first episode of Kathy's new podcast is out featuring comedy legend Dawn French. It is, as you would hope and expect, filthy fun. Dawn explains who she would drag with her into the afterlife and what she would leave of herself to the nation to rub for luck.
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Wakey wakey! Kath’s dying to be heard
It was only a matter of time: Kathy’s doing a podcast. It’s called Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wake and at the moment only the one-minute intro is available but we do have official blurb: If you could plan your perfect death, what would you do? If you were getting married you’d consult a wedding planner, who takes you through everything from what music you’re walking into, what flowers to buy and who you’re going to invite. Now change the word “wedding” to “funeral”… Kathy Burke is the host of the brand new podcast, ‘Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wake’, where she chats to her famous friends about…
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Many happy returns
It was Kathy’s birthday on Sunday i.e. yesterday 13 June, making her older than 50 and younger than 60. She was on Twitter about it, in response to people wishing her Happy Birthday, and had some observations too: “Thanks so much for all the beautiful birthday messages yesterday. I’d especially like to thank Raheem Sterling for scoring a goal in celebration and the BBC for airing Paddington 2. I really didn’t know they cared.” The goal was the winner for England against Croatia, at Wembley no less, in England’s first game of Euro 2020, so cause for celebration indeed. And Paddington 2 is, of course, an absolutely brilliant film (on…
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Holding Norton
Kathy will be directing a TV series based on chatshow supremo Graham Norton’s novel Holding, a murder mystery laced with dark comedy. The four-part series will be for ITV and filmed in West Cork, Ireland, this summer. It will star Game of Thrones actor Conleth Hill who is best know for his role as Varys in Game of Thrones but who has won two Laurence Olivier Awards and got two Tony nominations for his other work.
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An evening with…
Kathy is going to do a “an evening with” at the Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in London on 24 May. She’ll be interviewed by the recent winner of Celebrity Master Chef Riyadh Khalaf for 90 minutes in what is billed as “an up close and personal interview about her life and career.” Kathy quote: “I’m really looking forward to a good old natter with Riyadh in front of (hopefully) more than six people.” The event will be socially distanced because, you know, COVID.
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Steeling the Turbine
Kathy Burke will direct one-woman show Honest Amy at the Turbine Theatre (inside the old Battersea Power Station) from March to April next year. The self-deprecating and hilariously honest confessional is written and performed by Amy Booth-Steel and was a success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year – which Kathy also directed. It will run at the Turbine from March 24 to April 11, closing out the season. You can buy tickets online. Here’s the description of the show from the Turbine Theater’s website: Remember when I got cancer and had a breakdown in Tesco’s? Then literally went mental and posted some songs on Twitter? When anxiety was at…
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Co-directing Alone
Kathy Burke will co-direct, and take on tour, a new play by Sally Abbott with Scott Graham, as part of the 25th anniversary of the Frantic Assembly theatre company. The world premiere of I Think We Are Alone will run from February 3, 2020 to May 16, visiting 11 theatres across the UK including the Theatre Royal Stratford East, the Lowry in Salford, Nuffield Southampton, Bristol Old Vic, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud and Leicester Curve. The company’s website describes it as “a delicate and uplifting play about our fragility, resilience and our need for love and forgiveness.” As for the story… Two sisters are estranged and bicker over…
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Latest play: Once A Catholic
The cast of Kathy’s latest play has just been announced. Once A Catholic will be playing at the Tricycle Theatre from 21 November to 18 January 2014. The “raucous comedy”, originally performed in 1977 and written by Mary O’Malley, is set in 1957 and follows a group of Catholic schoolgirls as they take their final exams and discover the world’s forbidden fruits.
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Now that’s recognition
You know you’ve made it when The Guardian creates its own webpage for you 😉
