March 7, 2007 Caroline Ansdell Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers on our Whatsonstage.com Outing on Monday (5 March 2007) to The Man of Mode at the National Theatre enjoyed an extra treat when several members of the cast – principals Tom Hardy, Rory Kinnear, Nancy Carroll, Amit Shah and Madhav Sharma – joined us for an exclusive discussion following their evening performance. In George Etherege’s 1676 [...]

February 8, 2007 Charles Spencer The Telegraph The comedies of the English Restoration seem extraordinarily remote. Concentrating almost exclusively on wit, wealth, style and seduction, they present a hermetic, leisured society that seems worlds removed from the vulgarity, banality and ugliness of Blair’s Britain. It’s perhaps for this reason that Restoration comedies are rarely revived [...]

February 3, 2007 Aleks Sierz The Telegraph Not long ago, actor Tom Hardy was struggling with drink and drugs – now he’s grappling with a tricky 17th-century drama. ‘This role is meant to exude charm and sexiness,” says Tom Hardy, who is currently playing Dorimant in George Etherege’s The Man of Mode, a 1676 Restoration [...]

June 30, 2007 Chloe Fox The Telegraph In Tom Hardy’s eventful life he has been an addict, a petty criminal and a supermodel contest winner. Now, as one of Britain’s most promising young actors, he faces his most difficult challenge – drop the tough man act. Tom Hardy is not your average interviewee. For a [...]