Emilia Clarke and her dog are the latest celebs to take part in the “Save with Stories” campaign.
The “Game of Thrones” star took to Instagram Live where she tried to read “Bear’s Loose Tooth” by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman but her puppy, Ted, was more occupied on licking Clarke’s face.
Once things calmed down, Clarke was able to read the four-minute story to help entertain children at home during self-isolation and raise money for the Save With Stories Fund organized by No Kid Hungry and Save the Children.
“THIRTY MILLION CHILDREN rely on school for food. Responding to the needs of kids during these school closures, @savethechildren and @nokidhungry have a new fund @SAVEWITHSTORIES to support food banks, and mobile meal trucks, and community feeding programs with funds to do what they do best—and also—with educational toys, books, and worksheets to make sure brains are full, as well as bellies,” Clarke wrote next to her video.
She then asked fans to help out with a $10 donation by texting SAVE to 20222. [Source]
The scheme will encourage audiences to be ready for theatre’s return
Theatre company ATG has announced a national advertising campaign to prepare people for theatre’s eventual return.
Adam Speers, executive producer (ATG) said: “As with many arts organisations we pre-purchase outdoor space to advertise our portfolio of shows. We wanted to use this collateral we already have in place to do something positive for the industry as a whole, and encourage audiences to support theatres when they are up and running again.”
ATG has a number of venues operating in the West End and across the UK, with current productions currently being housed in ATG venues including Back to the Future the Musical, The Seagull with Emilia Clarke and Uncle Vanya with Toby Jones, as well as long-running shows including Wicked.
It is currently unknown when theatres will re-open, with a lack of a specific time-date within Government advice forcing SOLT and UK Theatres members to suspend shows “until further notice”. [Source]
Performances of Emilia Clarke’s play The Seagull have been suspended as London theatres shut their doors in a bid to help slow the spread of coronavirus.
Following advice from Prime Minister Boris Johnson about mass gatherings, the West End has decided to postpone their performances.
The Game Of Thrones star made her West End debut in the play on 11 March, with performances scheduled to run until 30 May.
As theatre-goers arrived at the venue, a sign on the doors of The Playhouse read: ‘Due to the ongoing public health crisis with COVID-19, Today’s performance of The Seagull at the Playhouse Theatre has been cancelled. Please contact your point of sale from 10am tomorrow to enquire about refunds and exchanges, none will be issued at this time.
‘We thank you for your support and understanding at this challenging time. Playhouse Theatre Management.’
A statement on the official Twitter page announced that no further performances will take place for the foreseeable future.
The message from Mark Cornell, Group CEO at Ambassador Theatre Group read: ‘We understand that this decision comes as a disappointment, and a massive inconvenience for those of you already on the way to a venue this evening, but ultimately we all want the same thing: the health and safety of our communities, and we believe this is the correct decision to make.’
He added that they are ‘consulting with industry bodies’ as to what will happen ‘in the immediate future’.
The Society of London, which represents the West End, and UK Theatre also followed suit.
Their statement read: ‘We regret to announce that from this evening (including tonight’s performances) SOLT and UK Theatre venues have closed in light of official government advice.
‘They will remain closed until further notice and will re-open when possible, following government recommendations.
‘Your box office/retailer from whom you bought your tickets will be in contact with regards to refunds and exchanges. Please bear with us in these unprecedented times.’ [Source]
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Clarke, who now stars in Chekhov’s The Seagull, tells Louis Wise that the HBO fantasy series made her feel like a ‘small cog in a big machine’
Emilia Clarke says she views herself primarily as a stage actress, which is a little weird when you consider that she has only appeared in one play professionally before, and it was an absolute turkey. Or, as the 33-year-old star of Game of Thrones says, in her jolly British way, it was “terrible, awful, awful! Bad! That was a bad show!” The piece was Breakfast at Tiffany’s on Broadway in 2013, and it’s safe to say Clarke’s Holly Golightly did not enchant. “I’ll never forget, someone said to me after press night the only thing they liked was the cat.”
If Clarke relays this with surprising good humour, this is part temperament, part experience. For one thing, in person she is relentlessly chipper and pukka. Whereas on HBO’s mega-fantasy series Game of Thrones, she grew in stature as Daenerys Targaryen, a still, dignified stateswoman (until that end), in real life she is a goofy motormouth chatterbox, always eager to catch the joke at her expense. And she is no stranger to what we shall politely call “the mixed review”. She has known some drubbings, whether for that Broadway show, or films such as Last Christmas or Terminator Genisys, or indeed the final series of GoT, which — euphemism alert! — didn’t quite turn out the way everybody wanted.
Luckily she never reads reviews. “Because if it’s really, really good, someone will tell you. And if it’s really, really bad — some f***** will tell you.”
We are meeting today, though, at a rehearsal space in south London, because she is chucking herself back into the fray. For only her second stage appearance, Clarke is going straight into the West End, in Chekhov’s The Seagull, and taking on the prestigious role of Nina. If she is nervous, she’s handling it in the usual way, which is to say with huge blasts of good cheer.
Two clichés about meeting starsis that they are a) smaller than you thought, but b) their features are stronger than expected. Both are true of Clarke. She is tiny, proper Kylie-tiny, nicely decked out in a gauzy beige-cream knit, some fashionably frayed jeans and pointy, well-worn white cowboy boots. Yet her eyes and grin look extra big: if she stays still, she’s a dainty doll, but as soon as she moves it’s Looney Tunes. To be clear, she never stays still.
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She’s a global star looking to open a post-dragon chapter in her career. He’s a little-known Australian actor who stunned critics with his UK stage debut. Together, they’re tackling Chekhov
‘Oh my GOD,’ roars Emilia Clarke in faux horror, after I tell her I’ve never watched ‘Game of Thrones’.
‘I should say I haven’t seen “Game of Thrones” either,’ ventures Daniel Monks, who’s co-starring with her in super-director Jamie Lloyd’s new production of Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’.
‘I’m SURROUNDED!’ bellows the erstwhile dragon queen. ‘You’ve not even seen my FUCKING SHOW!’
‘But,’ interjects Monks, ‘I have seen every episode of Jonathan Van Ness’s “Gay of Thrones” [a video series in which the “Queer Eye” star recaps each episode of the fantasy show]. I know everything!’
‘It’s fine,’ Clarke sighs. ‘None of my friends have seen all of it either.’
‘She’s very good in this play and I’m sure she’s very good in “Game of Thrones”,’ affirms Monks.
The pair are clearly getting on like a house on fire – allies in what is a West End debut for both of them. But it’s astonishing what different journeys they’ve taken to be here, in the London Bridge rehearsal room of super-director Jamie Lloyd, preparing to play Nina and Konstantin, the damaged couple at the heart of Chekhov’s classic play ‘The Seagull’.
You probably know who Emilia Clarke is. Fresh out of drama school, she was snapped up to play Daenerys Targaryen in “Game of Thrones”, a role that swallowed the next decade of her life and made the motormouthed, swear-happy Brit a global superstar. If she hadn’t got that gig, she thinks she’d probably have ‘gone on to do six plays in theatres above a pub’.
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