Room 2D

Photo-story from Februs 31 featuring Tiffany Walker as Lucie Bond. Ever the ingenue! Lucie Bond couldn’t resist a smile as she wandered through the side streets of yet another provincial town in the hour before rehearsals were due to begin. She didn’t really mind — there were plenty enough actresses who would envy her the constant stream of work she’d had since leaving drama school —it was just funny to think that she was forever cast in the role of vulnerable, exploited or just plain innocent teenager when she was actually well into her twenties. The real irony was that she didn’t realise how closely aligned her own character and the roles she played actually were. Her youthful sense of wonder and curiosity tended to lead her into an amazing assortment of situations that would have made a captivating, if unbelievable, television sit-com. There had been the dodgy restaurateur who had left her facing irate gangster creditors; the research she had conducted in a massage parlour for a p...

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An interview by Julie Holmes from Februs 3 A Julie Holmes interview for Februs I met Shireen Clifford on my way to the Janus shop a couple of months ago. You remember those unpredictable heavy storms we kept having? Well, Shireen and I both dived into the same doorway in Dean Street just as the heavens opened up. We did the usual British bit of gazing steadfastly skywards but eventually I felt compelled to break the awkward silence. I meant to say something about the rain letting up soon or how I intended to make a dash for it, but instead I nodded towards a card by the entry-phone and said, ‘I wonder if the weather affects trade?’ The coded message described a delinquent blonde needing correction and I instantly regretted drawing attention to it. Suppose my companion did not speak English? What if she was a member of the Clean Up Soho Campaign? What if…? ‘I wonder what it’s like to be paid for it?’ was how she actually respon...