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Dateline:
18th April, 2004
Direct Action at the
Young Vic
Direct Action is a three week season of productions by up-and-coming
directors from 27th May to 12th June at the Young Vic.
27th May to 3rd June
Brien Friel's Winners
Directed by Dawn Wilton (Jerwood Young Directors Award 2001 and artistic
director of Mamamissi Productions.
Maeterlinck’s Interior
Directed by Christopher Heimann (theimaginarybody theatre company)
3rd to 12th June
The Exception and the Rule (Brecht)
Directed by Jan-Willem van den Bosch (Mother Courage for Graeae)
The New Tenant (Ionesco)
Directed by Alex Murdoch (associate director at BAC and artistic director
of Cartoon de Salvo)
West End Return for
Nicholas in Jekyll and Hyde
Paul Nicholas will make his first West End appearance since 1997 (and
his first appearance in a West End musical since Barnum) early
next year when he appears in Leslie Bricusse and Frank Wildhorn's new
musical Jekyll and Hyde. The show will have a pre-London run
at the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne (24th August to 4th September, 2004),
after which it will go on to Dartford, Sheffield, Glasgow, Wimbledon,
Hull, Manchester, Malvern, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Birmingham and High
Wycombe.
Lawrence to Star in
All-Woman Much Ado
Josie Lawrence will play Benedict in the all-woman production of Much
Ado About Nothing at the Globe this summer. Yolanda Vasquez will
play Beatrice and Tamara Harvey Will direct.
Corleone Is the Tops!
A panel of film experts has voted Don Corleone (Marlon Brando's character
from The Godfather) as the greatest movie part of all time. Included
in the Top 20, in a poll organsied by the magazine Premiere, were Harrison
Ford's Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Sigourney Weaver's
Ripley (Alien), Sir Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter (The
Silence of the Lambs) and the computer-generated Gollum (Lord
of the Rings), voiced by Andy Serkis.
The Top 5 characters were
- Marlon Brando - Don Corleone (The Godfather)
- Humphrey Bogart - Fred C Dobbs (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
- Vivien Leigh - Scarlett O'Hara (Gone With the Wind)
- Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates (Psycho)
- Sean Connery - James Bond (Dr No)
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