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A Poet for Every Day of the Year review: Ode to Helen McCrory cuts to the heart of the matter

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An Ode to Helen McCrory at the National Theatre

by Dominic Maxwell | The Times | January 26, 2022
Damian Lewis paid fitting tribute to his late wife
Damian Lewis paid fitting tribute to his late wife URSZULA SOLTYS

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How would Damian Lewis, making his first stage appearance since the death of his wife Helen McCrory last April, begin an occasion dedicated to her memory? With a no-nonsense nod to the mixture of happiness and sadness of being at an occasional poetry reading event that she had taken part in previously herself? With a poem in her honour, performed to a well-scrubbed crowd (including McCrory’s friend Helena Bonham Carter) who had turned out to see him and Sir Simon Russell Beale, Fay Ripley, Danny Sapani and Lesley Sharp reading from the latest anthology of 366 poems edited by the evening’s organiser and host, Allie Esiri?

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DAMIAN LEWIS READS FROM ‘A POET FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR’ IN HONOR OF HELEN MCCRORY

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A Poetry Reading  Dedicated to Helen

by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | January 25, 2022
‘There will be dying, but there is no need to go into that…The sun rises in spite of everything…Everything is going to be all right.’ – Derek Mahon

On Tuesday, January 25, 2022 guests gathered for a live poetry reading dedicated to the late, great Helen McCrory.  Allie Esiri, author of her latest installment A Poet for Every Day of the Year, curated the night’s event at the Lyttelton venue of National Theatre in London. From 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. a variety of readers took to the stage to read verse from the new anthology, including Damian Lewis, Lesley Sharp, Fay Ripley, Simon Russell Beale and Danny Sapani with 900+ audience members in attendance, together with Damian and Helen’s children Manon and Gulliver and family friend Helena Bonham Carter.

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Dead Gorgeous Review

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Wartime Friends Trapped in Loveless Relationships

by Owen G | The Guardian | October 22, 2002

ITV’s heavily promoted one-off wartime drama, Dead Gorgeous, starring Fay Ripley, left viewers cold last night with 1.5 million switching off during the course of the programme.

The two-hour epic, in which Ripley co-starred with Helen McCrory as a pair of wartime friends trapped in loveless relationships, started off with 6.6 million viewers at 9pm.

But by 10.15pm, the number watching had dipped to 4.8 million, leaving the drama with an average of 5.5 million viewers, one in four of all those watching.

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