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It's another Q & A. Ask it and it shall be er... might be answered. When I started typing this week I couldn't stop and before I know it there were thousands and thousands of words. So that takes care of two Q&As .

Here's the first half of the mad scribblings typings then.

What is your favorite non-nominated performance from each of the five titans of the acting nominations? (Meryl Streep, Katharine Hepburn, Jack Nicholson, Bette Davis and Laurence Olivier) - Sean

Nathaniel: Oh this is a tough one since those people were Oscared for breathing. Okay. Let's take them in reverse order of preference as actors...

Sir Laurence Olivier. Weirdly I was just watching As You Like It (1936) just the other day. I wasn't all that impressed though he definitely had an easier time with the material and the medium than the other stagebound performers. I have seen several of his non-nominated films,...

For the Sex and the City star, it's a return to her first love and her roots – playing Shakespeare's greatest erotic heroine Cleopatra at the Liverpool Playhouse

The room was full of spray-varnished stars of the stage that day, all looking their best for the prize-giving ceremony ahead. Many were talented and some were good looking too, but there was only one actress that guests at the Laurence Olivier awards were queuing up to meet.

Regal in a long, strappy dress, her hair worn up, Kim Cattrall was belle of the ball, serenely gliding past Kevin Spacey and Patrick Stewart in the manner of Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen she has just announced she is to play later this year. Then, in 2005, the star of Sex and the City was fresh to the West End scene and so was still imbued with a kind of transatlantic glow. One might mention her...

Although she receives the crowning accolade from her peers tonight, the great radical has had the worst of years following the death of her daughter

When Vanessa Redgrave receives her Bafta fellowship this evening from Prince William, it will be a moment rich in theatrical potential. First, there is the pathos: the great veteran actress, still vibrant at 73, bestowed with a crowning professional accolade one year on from the death of her daughter, Natasha Richardson, in a skiing accident.

Then the dramatic irony of the revolutionary Marxist accepting the award from a prince. And finally the dreadful tension: what will she say in her speech?

Redgrave does not boast the most tactful history of acceptance speeches. Four years ago, having been recognised for her lifetime's achievement by the Transylvania film festival, she dedicated the award to a group campaigning against a gold mine in Romania owned by one of the festival's sponsors.

Director of Slumdog Millionaire and Trainspotting will make his National Theatre debut next winter with Frankenstein adaption

He won eight Oscars for Slumdog Millionaire and huge acclaim for such stylish films as Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and Sunshine. But now, just when his cinematic success is at its most giddying, Danny Boyle is to return to his theatrical roots – having been, in his words, "distracted for 15 years by the movies".

Boyle will make his National Theatre debut next winter, directing an adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, it was announced today.

According to the National's artistic director, Sir Nicholas Hytner, Boyle was one of the first artists he approached when he started at the theatre eight years ago. It was then that Boyle – over cake at a cafe – outlined his ideas about a Frankenstein production.

According to Hytner: "He has a very particular take … and he described to me in...