Philippa Hammond

Spotlight CV (Résumé) Philippa Hammond is an English actress based in the South East of the UK near London. An up-to-date CV can be seen at her Spotlight web-page

The Scotsman

Glimpse Part One (The Scotsman) Glimpse; Part One (Edinburgh Production) An Honorary Man Turning the Handle Philippa Hammond delivers two glimpses in this show, separated by 1,500 years but linked by a theme of women bowing to the will and needs of men. In the first she is Hypatia of Alexandria, a director of the

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The Scotsman

Glimpse Part Two (The Scotsman) Glimpse; Part Two (Edinburgh Production) Little Girls Like to Kiss Backstage Whispers Glimpse is a collection of four solo shows presented by Philippa Hammond, two at a time on alternate evenings. In this case it’s a smoke-filled 1940s private dick yarn and a take on life at the shallow end

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The Argus

Glimpse (The Argus) Glimpse Women Through the AgesA hit from the Edinburgh Fringe festival was staged at the Marlborough Theatre last week, filling it with drama, suspense and genuine laughs. Glimpse is a collection of four one-act plays by Thomas Everchild, all performed by Philippa Hammond. Each monologue delves into a different character and spins

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Edinburgh Evening News

Fanny Hill (Edinburgh Evening News) Fanny Hill Deliciously risque play makes lust a big laugh Fanny Hill first appeared with her Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure in literary circles in 1749, and it’s astonishing to think that for more than 200 years, until 1970, this book remained firmly on the banned list. In Afterthought’s

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The List

Fanny Hill (The List) Fanny Hill For those of you unaware of the book, Fanny Hill is a scandalous piece of Georgian erotic fiction that falls into the British tradition of bawdiness somewhere between Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones and Joan Collins’ The Stud. Like Tom Jones, it is an odyssey from innocence and into the

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The Scotsman

Fanny Hill (The Scotsman) Fanny Hill This adaptation of John Cleland’s neglected Georgian masterwork is a hugely enjoyable bawdy romp through one woman’s life and sex life, which for the purposes of the tale appear to be virtually interchangeable. The eponymous heroine, a naïve country virgin, finds herself all alone in the world with nothing

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Philippa Hammond English character actress based in the South East of the UK near London. Founder and Director of Studio 1919 and Studio1919 Productions Founder and Director of Afterthought Theatre and Film Productions Philippa Hammond is an actress working in stage, film and radio. Can be seen as Ivorwen, an ancestor of Aragorn in Born

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