On Demand
Survival Kit
Sunday, March 07, 2004
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Eileen AtkinsEileen Atkins
Dame Eileen Atkins is one of the theatre’s leading ladies, both in Britain and the U.S. She’s played everything from Medea and St. Joan to Major Barbara and The Duchess of Malfi, and appeared as Virginia Woolf at least twice, in the one-woman show A Room of One’s Own, and her play Vita and Virginia. Her recent films include Gosford Park, The Hours, and Cold Mountain. As a writer, she co-created the BBC epics Upstairs, Downstairs and House of Elliott (with Jean Marsh), and wrote the screenplay for the film Mrs. Dalloway. Well, we’ve offered her an entire cabin of her own for an extended stay. Let’s ask her what she would put in her personal survival kit.
Her List:
1. tap dancing shoes (trap mat if there are no wooden floors)
2. all the volumes of Virginia Woolf's diaries
3. the wherewithal to learn to do decoupage
4. a HUGE novel to adapt to a screenplay (i.e. War & Peace)
5. a cookbook of Indian vegetarian cookery
6. a radio that gets British Radio 4
7. a sledge (toboggan)
8. a monkey (a Capuchin)
1. tap dancing shoes (trap mat if there are no wooden floors)
2. all the volumes of Virginia Woolf's diaries
3. the wherewithal to learn to do decoupage
4. a HUGE novel to adapt to a screenplay (i.e. War & Peace)
5. a cookbook of Indian vegetarian cookery
6. a radio that gets British Radio 4
7. a sledge (toboggan)
8. a monkey (a Capuchin)
