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The Journal – 30th June 2008

shelliwood — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:15:14 +0000

Interview – Simon MacCorkindale Thanks to Sylvia for this article IT has more twists than a 1960s dance festival and – if done properly – a jaw-dropping surprise. Sleuth, which opens at Theatre Royal in Newcastle tonight, is a cat and mouse thriller which continually wrong-foots audiences – if they haven’t seen it before, of […]

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Evening Gazette – Teeside – 13th June 2008

shelliwood — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:37:26 +0000

Detect flaw? Thanks to Kathie – SMCFP’s Northern Correspondent 😉 Detective skills are hardly needed to work out why last year’s new film of Sleuth flopped while this year’s new theatre version is packing them in, but let the play’s star Simon MacCorkindale help work it out. “They departed from the original material and most […]

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East Anglian Daily Times – 31st May 2008

shelliwood — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:28:41 +0000

Rivals are locked into a deadly game (Mainly a Sleuth review – Contains spoilers) Thanks to SMCFP member Kerri SLEUTH’S first night was at the Theatre Royal Brighton 38 years ago. I was there. A few seats along from me was Laurence Olivier, who, apparently, had some unflattering things to say about it. Two years […]

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St Neots Weekly – 26-1st June 2008

shelliwood — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:05:35 +0000

TV STAR ACTS ON HELPING CHARITY A screen and stage star raised the spirits of a group of brain injury survivors with an inspiring talk. Thanks to maggiesangel at Holby.TV for this article Ely- born Simon MacCorkindale – best known for his role as Harry Harper in the BBC1 hospital drama Casualty – visited members […]

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This Is Derbyshire – 28th March 2008

shelliwood — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:21:38 +0000

STAGE CLASSIC IS BRINGING OUT THE MANIMAL IN SIMON He was the English aristocrat of choice a decade before Colin Firth emerged from a lake to become a housewife heartthrob and Hollywood star. Simon MacCorkindale played the upper-crust cad in some of the most popular American television series of the 1980s – from The Dukes […]

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This Is Bath – 20th March 2008

shelliwood — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:34:05 +0000

SIMON LEAVES CASUALTY TO TAKE ON OLIVIER’S KEY ROLE One of television’s best-loved doctors has marched out of accident and emergency and into a stage play that has become a modern classic.Simon MacCorkindale, whose character Harry Harper left Casualty two episodes ago, takes the leading role of Andrew in Sleuth which comes to the Theatre […]

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Woking News – 6th March 2008

shelliwood — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:03:25 +0000

Busy playing mind games in Shaffer’s Sleuth A DARK psychological thriller featuring top television stars will be on stage at the town’s theatre this week. Sleuth, one of the greatest ever stage thrillers, is being performed at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking until Saturday. The play, written by Anthony Shaffer, promises to baffle even […]

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7 Days – Northern Echo – 31st January 2008

shelliwood — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:23:30 +0000

Thriller tour Busy Simon MacCorkindale chats to Viv Hardwick about leaving BBC1 ‘s Casualty, taking on a stage tour and finding time to breed expensive Arabian horses YES sighs Simon MacCorkindale with mock irony, “I have gone down in history as the man who sacked Charlie Fairhead in Casualty.” The plot of the Christmas episode […]

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Wigan Today – 1st February 2007

shelliwood — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:12:45 +0000

Casualty’s Harry Is The Unexpected Guest IT was typical of a doctor to keep you waiting. When have they ever kept their appointment times? But as my consultation was with one of Holby City’s finest medics, the stoical Harry Harper, I was prepared to wait. In the four years that actor Simon MacCorkindale has worn […]

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