Dame Sheila Hancock: Old Rage | Digital Stage

Spend an evening with one of Britain’s best loved actors of the stage and screen, as she opens up about her ninth decade. Dame Sheila Hancock looked like she was breezing through old age. She had weathered and even thrived in widowhood, taking on acting roles that would have been demanding for a woman half her age. She has energy, friends, a devoted family, a lovely home. She can still remember her lines. So why, at 88, having sailed past supposedly disturbing milestones – 50, 70, even 80 – without a qualm, does she suddenly feel so furious? Celebrating the publication of her latest book Old Rage, Hancock will explore how devastating diagnoses, adjustments, Brexit and bereavement, now seem to knock her from every quarter. And that was before lockdown. Funny, feisty, honest (if often outraged), Hancock makes for brilliant company as she talks about her life as a daughter, a sister, a mother, a wife, a widow, an actor, a friend and looks at a world so different from the wartime world of her childhood. And yet – despite age, despite rage – she finds there are always reasons for joy. Don’t miss the opportunity to join the legendary actor for a gloriously irreverent evening. ‘Never less than courageous and often desperately moving’ Daily Telegraph Digital Stage presents this event recorded live by Fane www.fane.co.uk