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DIANA Hardcastle (right), Oliver Dimsdale, Michael Simkins, Ryan Early and Rebecca Humphries, who are rehearsing William Boyd’s new play The Argument, which begins previewing at the Hampstead Theatre (in the downstairs studio) in North London on March 3. Boyd’s play debates whether we should air our differences with those closest to us — and risk a conflagration — or keep schtum and bite our tongues, while resentment builds. If I was thinking of starting an argument, I might ask why this starry show is being staged on the small stage when it should be in the main house! ADEWALE akinnuoyeagbaje, who was at the Bafta film awards this week before heading to Philadelphia to prepare for an independent movie he’ll be shooting in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The actor said he’ll be playing a cop in the untitled film. ‘I want to immerse myself in what it’s like to be from Philly. I will live there, and listen, so I can get the accent and manner right,’ said the actor, who found fame in the TV dramas Lost and oz, and who can be seen in the will Smith film Concussion. RON Cook, who has joined Stephen Dillane and Gina McKee in director Lyndsey Turner’s production of Brian Friel’s play Faith Healer, which will start previewing at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre from June 23. Cook will play the manager of a man who makes a living healing the sick. The play’s a series of riveting monologues that (in the previous iterations I have seen) draw you into a tale of horror, sadness — and a love that perhaps never was. Friel wove a delicate tale that will hook you. Cook has just ended a run in a fantastic version of Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming at the Trafalgar Studio, directed by Jamie Lloyd. SANDY Powell (right), twice oscar-nominated this year for her costume designs for the films Carol and Cinderella, who paid tribute to her old friend David Bowie by attending the Bafta ceremony and Harvey weinstein’s Grey Goose after-party in a gloriously iridescent blue suit. ‘There was a time when we wore each other’s clothes... and they fitted,’ said Powell, who worked on projects with the late rock icon. She already has three oscars: for Shakespeare In Love, The Aviator and young Victoria. KATE BURTON, who is one of the theatrical ‘angels’ who has invested in the musical Mrs Henderson Presents, starring Emma Williams and Tracie Bennett at the Noel Coward. Ms Burton is the daughter of Richard and his first wife Sybil. She told me she has been a friend of Mrs H producer Norma Heyman ‘for as long as I can remember’. A bit of context: Ms Heyman was a lifelong friend of Kate Burton’s stepmother, Elizabeth Taylor. I met Heyman when I invited myself to Elizabeth’s 50th birthday party (hosted by Heyman) and serenaded the birthday girl while dressed as a singing telegram boy.