Photo by Alistair Morrison.
Based on Bernard Hare’s memoir Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew, the film adaptation Urban and the Shed Crew, directed by Candida Brady and starring Richard Armitage, Anna Friel, with Fraser Kelly as Urban, will screen at the Newcastle Film Festival Saturday, March 31, at 7 PM.
The screening will include a reception, the film, and an “In Conversation’ panel featuring Fraser Kelly, Richard Armitage, Candida Brady, Titus Oglivy and more. It will be held at The Biscuit Factory (16 Stoddart Street) in Newcastle. Tickets are £32.93, and are available now.
For more information on the screening and to reserve your tickets, check out the Urban and the Shed Crew Newcastle Film Festival site.
The film also stars an astonishingly talented young cast as the ‘Crew’, including Charlie Heaton (Frank), Jonathan Payne (Skeeter), Liam Ainsworth (Sparky), Olivia Downie Hullah (Molly), Olivia Tomlinson (Kara), Oscar Rogers (Sam), Nadine Rose Mulkerrin (Amber), Ellie Rooney-West (TLS), and Max as Tyson. The film also stars Neil Morrissey as Doc and Kathryn Drysdale as Madge.
The Crew
For more information on the film, watch the trailer here, and follow Urban on Twitter and Facebook.
Poster by Graham Humphreys.
About Richard Armitage US
Richard Armitage US is a respectful blog with a sense of humor (and a point of view) for fans of British-born actor Richard Crispin Armitage.
Armitage is star of – among other productions – North & South, The Vicar of Dibley two-part series finale, Robin Hood, Spooks (MI-5 in the US), Chris Ryan’s Strike Back (Strike Back: Origins in the States),and his chilling portrayal of Francis Dolarhyde in Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal. Most recently, he has been seen in the popularly and critically acclaimed series Berlin Station, the third season of which is currently being shot in Budapest and Berlin, and will air in the States on EPIX later this year, with a slight delay in other international territories.
His film appearances include starring roles in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy, as Thorin Oakenshield; Into the Storm, as tornado-beleaguered Gary Fuller; and other films, including Urban and the Shed Crew (awaiting release), Sleepwalker (available on iTunes and Amazon Video in the States); Pilgrimage (available on DVD in the US and the UK); and Brain on Fire, based on Susannah Cahalan’s best-selling memoir now streaming on Netflix; and Urban and the Shed Crew, coming soon on DVD.
He was nominated for the 2015 Best Actor Olivier Award for his portrayal of John Proctor in Arthur Miller’s classic play The Crucible, directed by Yael Farber at The Old Vic/London in-the-round. In 2016, he starred in Mike Bartlett's Love, Love, Love, directed by Michael Mayer, at New York's Roundabout Theatre.
His current film project is Julie Delpy’s My Zoe, in which he co-stars with Ms. Delpy, who also directs, and Daniel Brühl. It has been shooting in Berlin and Moscow.
His voice-performances of audiobooks are numerous, and range from Georgette Heyer to Charles Dickens, and characters ranging from Hamlet to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde... to name just a few. See Audible.com for more.
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