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"Walk! Not bloody likely. I am going in a taxi." This famous line fromGeorge Bernard Shaw'sPygmalionwas first spoken by Mrs PatrickCampbell in the original production in 1914. At the time she wasalmost 50 years old and yet she was considered such a distinctive actress that shecould make an audience believe in her youth. Born in... |
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That Vera Lynn was 103 years old is of no consequence. She was, in our mind's eye, forever in her 20s, belting out the string of songs that helped sustain Britain during the second world war. Above all, of course, We'll Meet Again, written in 1939. First recorded by Lynn, it perfectly captured the confused... |
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This is a genuinely lovely piece of work. It comes garlanded with praise from the previous two Edinburgh Festivals and rightly so. Puppet State Theatre Company have adapted French writer Jean Giono's 1953 story of a farmer who planted a forest, acorn by acorn, transforming arid Provençal land into lush fertility, with deep respect. Manifestly... |
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Devote the next 3 - or possibly 4 Days - to one of Canada's greatest actors... Read on as more than a few entertainment bloggers celebrate the films and TV of Christopher Plummer. |
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