Dawn McDaniel
Encyclopedia
Dawn McDaniel is a British
actress who has played Kirstie Collins in Holby City
, and she has appeared in Soldier Soldier
, Murphy's Law
and Doctors
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Other work includes
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See Dawn McDaniel's web-site
See also Dawn at the IMDB
Dawn appeared in the brilliant Little Grain of Sand
"A Little Grain of Sand"...The review from Time Out February 18-25 2004
"And this was showing on Valentine's Day? Christophe Allwright's play is as witty and bitter a picture of a self-destructing relationship as you could hope for. Dawn McDaniel and Stephen Lobo play a pair of urban sophisticates obsessed by their terminally sick marriage, hooked on analysis and unable to communicate except in jibes, silences and self-justifying rants.
After seven years they no longer love each other, but can't bring themselves to leave. The play certainly cuts to the chase. Just 75 minutes long; no other characters to clutter up the stage; no other topics up for discussion.
Causes gradually become clear: they haven't had sex for six months, he never takes out the rubbish, she insists on hanging a "crap" painting in the sitting room. And, behind all these, their failed attempts to have a child. Allwrights play, inspired by RD Laing's "prose-poems" "Knots" and translated from the French by Ros Schwartz, excels in the harsh poetry of those endlessly looped arguments common to every relationship.
The performances are little short of brilliant. Lobo gives chilling flashes of a tiny boy throwing tantrums inside a grown body; McDaniel shows a woman much more aware of her own vulnerability, who has built her aggressiveness as a defence. Joseph Blatchley's production is clean and sharp, but something stops the play really wreaking the emotional havoc on its audiences that it might. Too much style, too much poetry, perhaps and not enough mess. A riveting entertainment nonetheless.
United Kingdom
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actress who has played Kirstie Collins in Holby City
Holby City
Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...
, and she has appeared in Soldier Soldier
Soldier Soldier
Soldier Soldier is a British television drama series. The title comes from a traditional song of the same name.Produced by Central Television and broadcast on the ITV network, it ran for a total of seven series and 82 episodes from 1991 to 1997...
, Murphy's Law
Murphy's Law (TV series)
Murphy's Law is a BBC television drama, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Northern Ireland, starring James Nesbitt as an undercover police officer, Tommy Murphy. There were five series of the drama, shown on BBC One. The first two were composed of individual stories. Series three, four...
and Doctors
Doctors (BBC Soap Opera)
Doctors is a British daytime television soap opera, set in the fictional Midland town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the City of Birmingham. It was created by Chris Murray; Mal Young drove its development, and Carson Black was the original producer. The first episode was broadcast on...
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Other work includes
- LIFE BEGINS (Lizzie) Granada
- MURPHY'S LAW (Daisy) BBCBBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
. - CLITHEROE.C4.Salt Pictures.
- HOLBY CITY (regular) (Dr Kirsty Collins) BBCBBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
. - MOLL FLANDERS (Emily Richards)Granada Films.
- WING AND A PRAYER (Clare). ITV.
- THIN BLUE LINE (Photo girl). Tiger Aspect.
- OUT OF THE BLUE (Hooker)Ben Elton. BBCBBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
. - THE CHANGE (Sonia). World Productions.
- SOLDIER, SOLDIER (Julie).ITVITVITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
. - LONDON BRIDGE(regular) (Allie Walker)
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See Dawn McDaniel's web-site
See also Dawn at the IMDB
Dawn appeared in the brilliant Little Grain of Sand
"A Little Grain of Sand"...The review from Time Out February 18-25 2004
"And this was showing on Valentine's Day? Christophe Allwright's play is as witty and bitter a picture of a self-destructing relationship as you could hope for. Dawn McDaniel and Stephen Lobo play a pair of urban sophisticates obsessed by their terminally sick marriage, hooked on analysis and unable to communicate except in jibes, silences and self-justifying rants.
After seven years they no longer love each other, but can't bring themselves to leave. The play certainly cuts to the chase. Just 75 minutes long; no other characters to clutter up the stage; no other topics up for discussion.
Causes gradually become clear: they haven't had sex for six months, he never takes out the rubbish, she insists on hanging a "crap" painting in the sitting room. And, behind all these, their failed attempts to have a child. Allwrights play, inspired by RD Laing's "prose-poems" "Knots" and translated from the French by Ros Schwartz, excels in the harsh poetry of those endlessly looped arguments common to every relationship.
The performances are little short of brilliant. Lobo gives chilling flashes of a tiny boy throwing tantrums inside a grown body; McDaniel shows a woman much more aware of her own vulnerability, who has built her aggressiveness as a defence. Joseph Blatchley's production is clean and sharp, but something stops the play really wreaking the emotional havoc on its audiences that it might. Too much style, too much poetry, perhaps and not enough mess. A riveting entertainment nonetheless.