Six characters in a world of blueprints search for Utopia. From spaceships and retirement homes, to political rallies and facebook, no stone has been left unturned in our collaborative quest for paradise.

Sophia will be starring alongside Tobi Bakare, Laura Elphinstone, Rufus Hound, Pamela Miles and David Whitaker.

UTOPIA will begin in Newcastle at the Live Theatre, running from 31 May – 16 June 2012. Tickets are priced between £10 to £18. For more information or to book tickets, visit the Live Theatre website

UTOPIA will run the move to London from 20th June – 14th July 2012 with tickets are priced from £10. For more information check out the Soho Theatre Website

We will keep you updated with all the latest news and updates as soon as we have them!

I am absolutely delighted to announce that Sophia Myles will be one of the actors taking part in The 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala!

My agent sent me an email asking if I was interested in taking part in the 24 Hour Plays Gala at The Old Vic Theatre. I almost wet my pants in fear just reading the email. I am not a stage actress as you all know… but what I do know is this… facing FEAR is the gateway to the next dimension.

I have said yes. I can’t believe I have said yes. Sky diving naked almost seems less scary!  So please wish me luck and if I die as the curtain comes up you are all invited to my funeral.

Love to you all!  Sophia x

WHAT IS IT?

Now in its eighth year The 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala is one of the most exciting and glamorous evenings in London’s theatre calendar. A host of acclaimed actors, directors and writers join forces to write, rehearse and perform six short plays in just 24 hours. It’s the ultimate theatrical challenge, culminating in a unique evening played out on one of the world’s most celebrated stages – The Old Vic – on Sunday 13 November 2011.

Past participants have included Jenny Agutter, Gael García Bernal, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Jim Broadbent, Saffron Burrows, John Cleese, Richard Curtis, Joseph Fiennes, Stephen Fry, Josh Hartnett, Tom Hollander, Lesley Manville, James Nesbitt, Graham Norton, Rosamund Pike, Rufus Sewell, Brooke Shields, Kevin Spacey, Catherine Tate, Dominic West, Richard Wilson and Vince Vaughn.

You can find all the details of this show on The Old Vic website and you can also find them on Facebook

I added 11 additional pictures from last week’s ‘Spooks‘ set. Some of them are a bit similar to those we’ve already got (I tried to arrange that the most similar ones are displayed next to each other) but we can also now see who the legs of the guy sitting on a chair belong to: to another new member of the cast for Season 9: Max Brown.

Edit: Replaced the photos from Sophia’s 1999 theatre performance in ‘The Four Alice Bakers‘ with untagged versions.

I added 2 stills of Sophia taken during the actual performance of the Fay Weldon play ‘The Four Alice Bakers‘. I can’t believe I never saw these pictures before, but the few places that have them didn’t list Sophia’s name for the pictures so I couldn’t find them. The untagged versions I found were of much poorer quality (they’ve been posted in the messageboard) so I decided to add the ones with the light tag on them.

Sophia played the young Alice Baker opposite Richard Armitage at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre from February 19 to March 13, 1999. So far we only had 2 pictures from the rehearsals, thanks to Richard Armitage Online. They also have more info about their scene together:

In his first scene with Sophia Myles as the young Alice Baker, set in 1952, the couple dance a foxtrot to ‘Some Enchanted Evening’, he so badly that they give up and, in the course of three pages of dialogue, become engaged instead.

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