Adjoa Andoh
Appeared: 16 July
Adjoa Andoh is a British film, television, stage and radio actress. She is known on the UK stage for lead roles at the RSC, the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre and the Almeida Theatre, and is a familiar face on British television, notably in two series of Doctor Who as companion Martha's mother Francine Jones, 90 episodes of the BBC's long-running medical drama Casualty as Staff Nurse (later Sister) Colette Griffiths (née Kierney) and a year in the BBC's EastEnders. Andoh is the voice of Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency; she won Audio Book of the Year for Tea Time for the Traditionally Built. She made her Hollywood debut in autumn 2009 starring as Nelson Mandela's Chief of Staff Brenda Mazibuko alongside Morgan Freeman as Mandela in Clint Eastwood's Invictus. Andoh has worked extensively in the theatre. Her credits include His Dark Materials, Stuff Happens and The Revenger's Tragedy at the National Theatre; A Streetcar Named Desire (National Theatre Studio); Troilus and Cressida, Julius Caesar, Tamburlaine and The Odyssey (RSC); Sugar Mummies and Breath Boom (Royal Court); Richard II (Globe); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Donmar Warehouse); Great Expectations (Bristol Old Vic); Blood Wedding (Almeida); Nights at the Circus, The Dispute and Pericles (Lyric Hammersmith); Julius Caesar (the Bridge); Purgatorio (Arcola); The Vagina Monologues (Criterion); Starstruck (Tricycle) and In The Red and Brown Water (Young Vic). She is a Fairtrade Ambassador.
Appeared: 16 July
Adjoa Andoh is a British film, television, stage and radio actress. She is known on the UK stage for lead roles at the RSC, the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre and the Almeida Theatre, and is a familiar face on British television, notably in two series of Doctor Who as companion Martha's mother Francine Jones, 90 episodes of the BBC's long-running medical drama Casualty as Staff Nurse (later Sister) Colette Griffiths (née Kierney) and a year in the BBC's EastEnders. Andoh is the voice of Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency; she won Audio Book of the Year for Tea Time for the Traditionally Built. She made her Hollywood debut in autumn 2009 starring as Nelson Mandela's Chief of Staff Brenda Mazibuko alongside Morgan Freeman as Mandela in Clint Eastwood's Invictus. Andoh has worked extensively in the theatre. Her credits include His Dark Materials, Stuff Happens and The Revenger's Tragedy at the National Theatre; A Streetcar Named Desire (National Theatre Studio); Troilus and Cressida, Julius Caesar, Tamburlaine and The Odyssey (RSC); Sugar Mummies and Breath Boom (Royal Court); Richard II (Globe); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Donmar Warehouse); Great Expectations (Bristol Old Vic); Blood Wedding (Almeida); Nights at the Circus, The Dispute and Pericles (Lyric Hammersmith); Julius Caesar (the Bridge); Purgatorio (Arcola); The Vagina Monologues (Criterion); Starstruck (Tricycle) and In The Red and Brown Water (Young Vic). She is a Fairtrade Ambassador.
Spotlight on Independent Bookshops...
Bookmongers
439 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton
London SW9 8LN
Telephone: 020 7738 4225
Email: books@booksmongers
Website: http://www.bookmongers.com/
The shop has now re-opened after the lockdown with sensible safety precautions in place, such as perspex counter screens, hand sanitisers, and a restriction to the number of people allowed in-store at any one time.
439 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton
London SW9 8LN
Telephone: 020 7738 4225
Email: books@booksmongers
Website: http://www.bookmongers.com/
The shop has now re-opened after the lockdown with sensible safety precautions in place, such as perspex counter screens, hand sanitisers, and a restriction to the number of people allowed in-store at any one time.
Spotlight on Theatres...
Minack Theatre
Porthcurno
Penzance TR19 6JU
Telephone: +44(0)1736 810181
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.minack.com/
The Minack Theatre is an open-air theatre, constructed above a gully with a rocky granite outcrop jutting into the sea (minack from Cornish meynek means a stony or rocky place). The theatre is at Porthcurno, 4 miles (6.4 km) from Land's End in Cornwall, England. The season runs each year from May to September, and by 2012 some 80,000 people a year see a show, and more than 100,000 pay an entrance fee to look around the site. It has appeared in a listing of the world's most spectacular theatres.
Sadly, all shows scheduled to take place in the 2020 season have now been cancelled. However they still intend to offer a few 'one-man' shows in a new schedule. Keep watching their website for updates.
Porthcurno
Penzance TR19 6JU
Telephone: +44(0)1736 810181
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.minack.com/
The Minack Theatre is an open-air theatre, constructed above a gully with a rocky granite outcrop jutting into the sea (minack from Cornish meynek means a stony or rocky place). The theatre is at Porthcurno, 4 miles (6.4 km) from Land's End in Cornwall, England. The season runs each year from May to September, and by 2012 some 80,000 people a year see a show, and more than 100,000 pay an entrance fee to look around the site. It has appeared in a listing of the world's most spectacular theatres.
Sadly, all shows scheduled to take place in the 2020 season have now been cancelled. However they still intend to offer a few 'one-man' shows in a new schedule. Keep watching their website for updates.
Spotlight on Libraries
Brixton Library
Brixton Oval, Brixton
London SW2 1JQ
Telephone: 020 7926 1058
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brixtonlibrary
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brixtonlibrary
Instagram: @Lambeth_libraries
Brixton Library sits in the heart of Lambeth in South London. Apart from a huge range of books, free internet access and wi-fi, they have many services you can access from home including daily papers, magazines, e-books, e-audiobooks and even a free filming steaming service. They also answer thousands of information requests each year.
Our library provides a welcoming space for the community and is always buzzing with people meeting up and socialising. In the last two years they've launched a popular exhibition space where artists can show their work, hold private views, and run workshops. They also host a huge range of events, activities, theatre productions, music events, talks and literature festivals throughout the year. There is also plenty of quiet study space for students or people looking for somewhere to work.
It’s a lively library with lots going on all the time. Outside of the usual library service they’re working in partnership with the British Library offering Start-up business support which has been hugely popular. They’re just entering our third year of running a scheme in the school holidays for families living with food insecurity and will be running this all summer. They have set-up a programme called Workwear for people to borrow smart clothing for interviews. They even distribute contraception as part of a programme called Come Correct.
As a public library they are passionate about books and sharing the joy of reading and they love having the opportunity to work with our local community and doing so much more.
How you can support Brixton Library during the Lockdown
Customers old and new have continued to use or join the library during the lockdown. Our #Librariesfromhome offer is extensive and they have continued to run all of our regular groups such as reading groups, storytimes, code clubs, film clubs, local history talks, author events and more and even introduced a new weekly Literary Lockdown Quiz. Join us online for any of these events or even better, come and see us if you’re ever in Brixton, they’ll be open again soon!
Cllr Sonia Winifred, Lambeth’s Cabinet member for Equalities and Culture, said: 'Lambeth has brilliant libraries, so I can well understand why Adjoa has chosen Brixton as her favourite. The library staff really focus on offering books that our diverse community enjoy and it is a real hub with a fantastic range of events that bring the best of world literary talent into the heart of our south London borough.'
Brixton Oval, Brixton
London SW2 1JQ
Telephone: 020 7926 1058
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brixtonlibrary
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brixtonlibrary
Instagram: @Lambeth_libraries
Brixton Library sits in the heart of Lambeth in South London. Apart from a huge range of books, free internet access and wi-fi, they have many services you can access from home including daily papers, magazines, e-books, e-audiobooks and even a free filming steaming service. They also answer thousands of information requests each year.
Our library provides a welcoming space for the community and is always buzzing with people meeting up and socialising. In the last two years they've launched a popular exhibition space where artists can show their work, hold private views, and run workshops. They also host a huge range of events, activities, theatre productions, music events, talks and literature festivals throughout the year. There is also plenty of quiet study space for students or people looking for somewhere to work.
It’s a lively library with lots going on all the time. Outside of the usual library service they’re working in partnership with the British Library offering Start-up business support which has been hugely popular. They’re just entering our third year of running a scheme in the school holidays for families living with food insecurity and will be running this all summer. They have set-up a programme called Workwear for people to borrow smart clothing for interviews. They even distribute contraception as part of a programme called Come Correct.
As a public library they are passionate about books and sharing the joy of reading and they love having the opportunity to work with our local community and doing so much more.
How you can support Brixton Library during the Lockdown
Customers old and new have continued to use or join the library during the lockdown. Our #Librariesfromhome offer is extensive and they have continued to run all of our regular groups such as reading groups, storytimes, code clubs, film clubs, local history talks, author events and more and even introduced a new weekly Literary Lockdown Quiz. Join us online for any of these events or even better, come and see us if you’re ever in Brixton, they’ll be open again soon!
Cllr Sonia Winifred, Lambeth’s Cabinet member for Equalities and Culture, said: 'Lambeth has brilliant libraries, so I can well understand why Adjoa has chosen Brixton as her favourite. The library staff really focus on offering books that our diverse community enjoy and it is a real hub with a fantastic range of events that bring the best of world literary talent into the heart of our south London borough.'