Uncle Vanya is now available on Digital Theatre+.
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Laurence Olivier carrying the lifeless bodies of two Catherine Earnshaws.
First as Heathcliff in 1939, carrying Merle Oberon's Cathy.
Then as King Lear in 1983, carrying Anna Calder-Marshall's Cordelia – she played Cathy in the 1970 Wuthering Heights with Timothy Dalton as Heathcliff.
I just think it's an interesting coincidence and parallel. Especially because scholars sometimes argue that Wuthering Heights shows some influence from King Lear in its tone.
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Interviewer: In 2006, you had the opportunity to work with another Burke, your son Tom, in “Number 13,” the M. R. James Christmas ghost story. Was that the first time you ever worked with Tom on screen?
David Burke: The first time we worked together professionally. When Tom was still at school, we used to do performances in the village hall.
Anna Calder-Marshall: We’d make them up, in secret, just comedy, clowning, poems…we’d do Victoria Wood sketches.
David: Tom was brilliant at that.
Anna: Brilliant…we’d work them up over Christmas … We worked so much together as a threesome. I mean we did show after show … we must have done about 8 or something.
Interviewer: Do you think Tom would ever give the role of Dr. Watson a try?
David: I think he has too much charisma.
Interviewer: I was gonna say, I think he could probably play Holmes …
David: He actually does a speech…
Anna: … Holmes, as Jeremy Brett. He’s an incredible mimic. He learned it for one of our shows.
From David Burke: A Sherlockian Conversation (2022)
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"Strike is back for a fifth BBC series, Troubled Blood, later this year. You were endorsed for the role by JK Rowling, which must have felt good?
It was great but I think she, like many good writers, is excited to see their work reinterpreted for the screen. It’s reinvented and people come at it from different angles. Emma [Donoghue] was definitely like that with The Wonder. When Christopher Hampton adapted Les Liaisons Dangereuses for the stage and saw the finished production for the first time, he said: “I’m so excited because I didn’t know I’d written that.” There’s a real generosity to that.
Doesn’t your mother, Anna Calder-Marshall, appear in the new series?
She does and she’s fantastic in it. The first scene we had was also with Carol MacReady, who’s a wonderful actor. Her and my mum go way back and it was a joy to be in a scene with both of them. I haven’t acted with my parents in a long while, since doing Victoria Wood sketches and silly stuff in local theatre in Kent."
Can't wait!
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare (audio) (2/1)
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare (audio) (2/2)
Ian McKellen as Romeo
Anna Calder-Marshall as Juliet
With Patricia Routledge Robert Eddison , Ronald Pickup Margaret Tyzack, David Weston and Joseph O'Conor.
Produced by John Tydeman and Patricia Routledge
Recorded 3 March 1970 for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 6 April 1970
Original text
Modern English
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The Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Podcast interviewed David Burke and shared this lovely photos of David and also his wife Anna.
Interview on Youtube.
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Heathcliff (Timothy Dalton) and Cathy (Anna Calder Marshall) , Wuthering Heights, 1970.
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I learned about "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë though "Jane Eyre" around two years ago. I was discovering more about the works of Brontë sisters. WH is the fourth Brontë novel I've seen after reading the two novels written by Anne Brontë. Before I read the novel, I first discovered it through 1970 movie version starring Timothy Dalton and Anna Calder-Marshall then the 1978 version produced by BBC. The latter made me convinced to purchase a book several months later after watching it. I bought the novel for less than a dollar, then read it and I like it very much. Then I discovered there was a music based on the novel performed by Kate Bush. There are at least two versions of the song but I chose the modern 80's version (video above) because it sounded more poweful.
Yeah "Wuthering Heights" is such a fantastic novel even if many of the characters there seemed needed to take therapy sessions.
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Uncle Vanya is available to watch on BBC iPlayer for four days only.
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Burke collages are my favorite. ❤️
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Please God let Anna Calder-Marshall play Aunt Joan, please!
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