Edie + Q&A
We are delighted to welcome Dame Sheila Hancock and producer Mark Stothert for a post film Q&A, exclusive to Chiswick Cinema. We are grateful for their time and support.
Edith Moore (Edie) is a bitter, gruff woman in her eighties. In the months following her husband George’s death, Edie’s strained relationship with her daughter Nancy begins to worsen. The question over Edie’s future looms large; while Edie tries hard to convince Nancy she can manage fine by herself, Nancy is making plans for her mother to move to a retirement home. Edie feels like it is the beginning of the end. It seems she will die with all the regrets of her past intact and one regret haunts her most of all. When Edie was married, her father planned a climbing trip for them in the Scottish Highlands. Edie yearned to go, but her husband George, a difficult and controlling man, made her stay at home, nearly thirty years later, Edie decides to make the trip herself alone.
DAME SHEILA HANCOCK CBE – Sheila’s extensive career spans theatre, radio, television and film, and she is also now enjoying a career as a writer and features presenter. She has been honoured with two Lifetime Achievement Awards: Women in Film and Television, and The Lady Ratlings as well as an OBE for services to drama in 1974, with a CBE following in 2011. As well as performing extensively for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, Sheila was the first woman Artistic Director of the RSC tour, and the first woman to direct in the Olivier Theatre, National Theatre. She was also associate Artistic Director of the Cambridge Theatre Company. Sheila’s previous work in films ranges from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Love and Death on Long Island and Yes, to Carry on Cleo and 3 Men and a Little Lady. Sheila was nominated for a BAFTA for her performances in The Russian Bride, and the BBC series Bedtime. She has just finished filming on the Sky comedy drama The Dali and the Cooper and other Television work includes Before I Call You In, a monologue for television written especially for her by Hugo Blick; Delicious, Endeavour, New Tricks, Hustle, The Catherine Tate Show, Nellie and Melba, Moving On, Just Henry and After Thomas, as well as presenting a number of documentary features. Sheila’s work as an author includes The Two of Us, (Author of the Year Award); its follow up Just Me; Ramblings of an Actress, and most recently her debut novel Miss Carter’s War.
MARK STOTHERT – After doing a brief spell in an advertising agency Mark went into advertising film production working with director Terry Stone as his assistant, graduating to the position of producer in only nine months. They then joined Haggard and Philips production company where he produced for Piers Haggard and Chris King; here he met Director John S Clarke. After a year Mark and John left to form John S Clarke Productions where as a team they worked for fifteen years producing a multitude of award-winning commercials, traveling the world and producing a body of creatively acclaimed work with challenging logistics. Working for clients including BMW, British Airways, Vauxhall, BT, Shell and Sainsbury’s amongst others.Mark left John S Clarke in 2000 to start Infinity where in a short time he has built up a strong group of experienced, talented directors. Infinity continues to grow in output and reputation.
Edith Moore (Edie) is a bitter, gruff woman in her eighties. In the months following her husband George’s death, Edie’s strained relationship with her daughter Nancy begins to worsen. The question over Edie’s future looms large; while Edie tries hard to convince Nancy she can manage fine by herself, Nancy is making plans for her mother to move to a retirement home. Edie feels like it is the beginning of the end. It seems she will die with all the regrets of her past intact and one regret haunts her most of all. When Edie was married, her father planned a climbing trip for them in the Scottish Highlands. Edie yearned to go, but her husband George, a difficult and controlling man, made her stay at home, nearly thirty years later, Edie decides to make the trip herself alone.
DAME SHEILA HANCOCK CBE – Sheila’s extensive career spans theatre, radio, television and film, and she is also now enjoying a career as a writer and features presenter. She has been honoured with two Lifetime Achievement Awards: Women in Film and Television, and The Lady Ratlings as well as an OBE for services to drama in 1974, with a CBE following in 2011. As well as performing extensively for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, Sheila was the first woman Artistic Director of the RSC tour, and the first woman to direct in the Olivier Theatre, National Theatre. She was also associate Artistic Director of the Cambridge Theatre Company. Sheila’s previous work in films ranges from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Love and Death on Long Island and Yes, to Carry on Cleo and 3 Men and a Little Lady. Sheila was nominated for a BAFTA for her performances in The Russian Bride, and the BBC series Bedtime. She has just finished filming on the Sky comedy drama The Dali and the Cooper and other Television work includes Before I Call You In, a monologue for television written especially for her by Hugo Blick; Delicious, Endeavour, New Tricks, Hustle, The Catherine Tate Show, Nellie and Melba, Moving On, Just Henry and After Thomas, as well as presenting a number of documentary features. Sheila’s work as an author includes The Two of Us, (Author of the Year Award); its follow up Just Me; Ramblings of an Actress, and most recently her debut novel Miss Carter’s War.
MARK STOTHERT – After doing a brief spell in an advertising agency Mark went into advertising film production working with director Terry Stone as his assistant, graduating to the position of producer in only nine months. They then joined Haggard and Philips production company where he produced for Piers Haggard and Chris King; here he met Director John S Clarke. After a year Mark and John left to form John S Clarke Productions where as a team they worked for fifteen years producing a multitude of award-winning commercials, traveling the world and producing a body of creatively acclaimed work with challenging logistics. Working for clients including BMW, British Airways, Vauxhall, BT, Shell and Sainsbury’s amongst others.Mark left John S Clarke in 2000 to start Infinity where in a short time he has built up a strong group of experienced, talented directors. Infinity continues to grow in output and reputation.
Cast
Sheila Hancock
Director
Simon Hunter
Running Time
102 minutes