Charles was at the Josephine Hart memorial service ~ alyssadu

25 October 2011 12:53 PM

Friends gather to pay a fond farewell to Josephine Hart

Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey became Thespians’ Corner last night when a huge gathering of theatrical folk gathered to pay tribute to their friend Josephine Hart, the novelist, theatre producer and founder of West End Poetry Hour at the British Library, who died earlier this year. Dame Eileen Atkins, Bono, Kenneth Cranham, Charles Dance, Joanna David, Emilia Fox, Edward Fox, Julian Glover, Jeremy Irons, Felicity Kendal, Damian Lewis, Helen McCrory, Ian McDiarmid, Sir Roger Moore, Dan Stevens, Harriet Walter and Dominic West gave readings, directed by Michael Grandage. The Dean of Westminster conducted the service, which included extracts from the T S Eliot poems The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, Portrait of a Lady and The Hollow Men. Maurice Saatchi gave a moving eulogy to Josephine, his late wife. Princess Michael of Kent, Chancellor George Osborne and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild were there to pay their respects. The programme included a quote from Hart’s debut novel Damage which has won her a lasting place in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations: “Damaged people are dangerous.They know they can survive."

“I’ve done a lot of poetry readings with Josephine. I’m one of her pool of readers. She is informative, interesting and she likes actors. I’ve learnt so much from Josephine. I’m not very well read and she has opened doors for me. "
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