Jussi Adler-Olsen fans will be pleased to know that Steven Pacey has recently recorded the audio version of the third novel in the best selling Department Q crime series.
It will be released under the title A Conspiracy of Faith, on May 21 2013, in the US. No news about the UK edition at this stage. Watch this space.
Charley’s Aunt is in Bath this week, at the Theatre Royal.
12 – 17 November, 2012
Monday – Wednesday 7.30pm
Thursday – Saturday 8.00pm
Matinees Wednesday & Saturday 2.30pm
Tickets not available online, call the Theatre Royal box office:
10225 448844
Steven Pacey upright and military as a concerned father.
Alan King, The Bristol Post
| DATE | SOURCE | REVIEWER | STAR RATING |
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| 12 November | Listmania Bath | Jackie Chappell | not rated |
| 12 November | What’s On Stage | Gill Kirk | ** |
| 13 November | ChronReviews | Christopher Hansford | not rated |
| 14 November | The Bristol Post | Alan King | *** 1/2 |
Also, a late London review:
Steven Pacey is perfect as Jack’s dashing old dad.
Quentin Letts, Daily Mail Online
| DATE | SOURCE | REVIEWER | STAR RATING |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 November | Daily Mail Online | Quentin Letts | **** |
The performances of the whole cast seemed to be carried by Mathew Horne and particularly Steven Pacey …
Peter Meacock, Guide2Bath
| DATE | SOURCE | REVIEWER | STAR RATING |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 November | Guide2Bath | Peter Meacock | not rated |
It’s that time of the year … to nominate for the annual What’s on Stage Awards!
Here’s the categories for which Steven Pacey is elegible:
This is the one on which we’re focussing, Best Supporting Actor in a Play, for Charley’s Aunt, so if you only vote once, make it this one:
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Some more information about the awards:
The Whatsonstage.com Awards, the “theatregoers’ choice”, are the only major theatre awards in which you, the audience, are the judges across all 20+ awards categories
The awards shortlists – covering the best of London theatre (and a bit beyond) – are drawn up with the help of thousands of theatregoers who log on to nominate their favourites. Nominations are open until November 30, and are announced at a star-studded launch event held in early December.
Then … voting opens and will run until January 2013. In 2011/12, over 70,000 theatregoers logged on to vote, with leaders in many categories fluctuating dramatically from day to day. In the end, almost every year, the determination of some fields comes down to just a handful of votes.
Text from What’s On Stage
Get your fingers clicking!
Chris Nickson, author of The Broken Token, which was recently read by Steven Pacey, shares his reaction to the audiobook:
Today sees the release of my first audiobook, The Broken Token, done through the excellent people at Creative Content and spoken by the veteran actor Steven Pacey, who’s done similar work for authors like Susan Hill and Joanne Harris, both of whom are in my pantheon of greats, so I feel in esteemed company.
I received my copy last week, eight CDs of it. I’ll admit, I was full of trepidation when I put it in the CD player. At appearances I’ve read sections from the book numerous times. I know the language, the flow, the Leeds feel of it all. Above all, in my head I had the voices of the characters.
What I heard wasn’t those same voices; of course, it couldn’t be. As a wise woman told me, it’s an interpretation. But it’s an excellent one. His Amos Worthy seethes with menace, every bit as good as I could have hoped. Listening to it I’ve learned a great deal, most particularly that a book from someone else’s point of view will be different, but it can be just as good, if not even better, as those people come at it objectively.
So I’ve moved from trepidation to outright joy. More than that, to gratitude to the team and to Steven for putting so much into it, and finding things I’d never imagined. Go on, have a listen to an excerpt. You can do it here. I’ll guarantee that you won’t be disappointed. The audiobook has been released into the wild. May it soar high.
From Chris Nickson’s BLOG, 28 September, 2012
Released this week, an abridged version of Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, read by Steven Pacey, for Penguin Classics.
“I am got, I know not how, into a cold un-metaphorical vein of infamous writing, and cannot take a plumb-lift out of it for my soul; so must be obliged to go on writing like a Dutch commentator to the end of the chapter, unless something be done….”
Laurence Sterne’s great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate “hero” Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick.
A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations
Publisher’s Summary
Also released this week, the seventh in Susan Hill’s best-selling Simon Serrailler series, A Question of Identity. Read, unabridged, by Steven Pacey.
Duchess of Cornwall Close: sheltered accommodation, a mix of bungalows and flats, newly built and not quite finished. Despite the bitterly cold weather, elderly residents are moving in. Then, one snowy night, an old lady is murdered – dragged from her bed and strangled with a length of flex. DCS Simon Serrailler and his team are aware of bizarre circumstances surrounding her death, but keep some details secret while they desperately search for a match. All they know is that the killer will strike again, and will once more leave the same tell-tale signature.
Then Simon’s former sergeant, the ever-cheerful Nathan Coates, tracks down a name: Alan Keyes. But Alan Keyes has no birth certificate, no address, no job, no family, no passport, and no dental records. Nothing. Alan Keyes does not exist.
Publisher’s Summary
Steven Pacey recently read an abridged version of Thomas Hardy’s time-honoured, The Return of the Native for Penguin Classics.
“Do I desire unreasonably much in wanting what is called life – music, poetry, passion, war, and all the beating and pulsing that is going on in the great arteries of the world?” Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing that Clym Yeobright is to return from Paris, she sets her heart on marrying him, believing that through him she can leave rural life and find fulfilment elsewhere. But she is to be disappointed, for Clym has dreams of his own, and they have little in common with Eustacia’s.
Their unhappy marriage causes havoc in the lives of those close to them, in particular Damon Wildeve, Eustacia’s former lover, Clym’s mother and his cousin Thomasin. The Return of the Native illustrates the tragic potential of romantic illusion and how its protagonists fail to recognize their opportunities to control their own destinies.
Publisher’s Summary
A recent interview with Jane Asher in The Lady Magazine included a rehearsal photograph for Charley’s Aunt featuring Steven Pacey.
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And Michael Coveney’s verdit on Charley’s Aunt:
Steven Pacey is outstanding as Colonel Sir Francis Chesney.
Michael Coveney, What’s On Stage.
| DATE | SOURCE | REVIEWER | STAR RATING |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 October | What’s On Stage | Michael Coveney | not rated |
Two posters from Steven’s plays at the National Theatre are available at the National Theatre Poster Sales website. There is Michael Frayn’s Democracy from 2003, and Trelawny of the Wells from 1993. See below:
A new audiobook, brilliantly read by Steven Pacey. The Broken Token, by Chris Nickson, was realeased recently. It is the first book in the Richard Nottingham series of Leeds mysteries.
Pickpockets, pimps, and prostitutes: All in a day’s work for the city constable – until work moves too close to home…. When Richard Nottingham, Constable of Leeds, discovers his former housemaid murdered in a particularly sickening manner, his professional and personal lives move perilously close. Circumstances seem to conspire against him, and more murders follow. Soon the city fathers cast doubt on his capability, and he is forced to seek help from an unsavoury source. Not only does the murder investigation keep running into brick walls, and family problems offer an unwelcome distraction; he can’t even track down a thief who has been a thorn in his side for months. When answers start to emerge, Nottingham gets more than he bargains for….
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