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Another Smashing Play On The Beeb This Sunday !
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Saturday night, at 21:00...yet another reason why we should be grateful we have the Beeb !
Saturday night, at 21:00...yet another reason why we should be grateful we have the Beeb !
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Mmmm...will I be able to watch this......love BBC Drama....and Ian McKellen......but detest Hopkins.
When we were hard up and I had been very ill for a long time MrG bought tickets to see Antony and Cleo in London....a treat to cheer me.....seeing one of my favourite plays in London......
It was lots of money for us in those days.....theatre in London.....
Judy Dench was the most fantastic Cleopatra.....Hopkins looked drunk and bored all through the performance....in fact I heard him admit as much in a later radio interview.
By coincidence, the day after our trip we went to a party where I was introduced to a chap who asked me about our theatre trip.....I didn't hold back with my opinion of Hopkins.
This chap was furious with me.....I had no idea he was Hopkins dresser having a night off for this party......
He got all dramatic with me.....I got dramatic with him with some humour and as it was an am dram party everyone got dramatic.....
One of the best parties I've been too.......☺
When we were hard up and I had been very ill for a long time MrG bought tickets to see Antony and Cleo in London....a treat to cheer me.....seeing one of my favourite plays in London......
It was lots of money for us in those days.....theatre in London.....
Judy Dench was the most fantastic Cleopatra.....Hopkins looked drunk and bored all through the performance....in fact I heard him admit as much in a later radio interview.
By coincidence, the day after our trip we went to a party where I was introduced to a chap who asked me about our theatre trip.....I didn't hold back with my opinion of Hopkins.
This chap was furious with me.....I had no idea he was Hopkins dresser having a night off for this party......
He got all dramatic with me.....I got dramatic with him with some humour and as it was an am dram party everyone got dramatic.....
One of the best parties I've been too.......☺
Gness....my experience with Hopkins is quite the reverse !
I saw him in "M Butterfly" in the late 80's, up in Town. Its a wonderful play and I was so impressed with it I saw it twice in 2 weeks. He played Rene Gallimard, the French Civil Servant.
But Hopkins was definitely a bit hit or miss when it came to the London stage. He seriously peed-off Olivier by leaving a run in the National Theatre halfway through, leaving everybody in the lurch. It was said that Olivier never ever spoke to him again after the incident, despite being initially hugely impressed with him when he first invited him to join the Company !
But this play on Saturday night should be the highlight of the week, so please don't miss it ! Saturday night telly is usually a graveyard of quality.
I saw him in "M Butterfly" in the late 80's, up in Town. Its a wonderful play and I was so impressed with it I saw it twice in 2 weeks. He played Rene Gallimard, the French Civil Servant.
But Hopkins was definitely a bit hit or miss when it came to the London stage. He seriously peed-off Olivier by leaving a run in the National Theatre halfway through, leaving everybody in the lurch. It was said that Olivier never ever spoke to him again after the incident, despite being initially hugely impressed with him when he first invited him to join the Company !
But this play on Saturday night should be the highlight of the week, so please don't miss it ! Saturday night telly is usually a graveyard of quality.
I have now watched this play in its entirety, and it seems to me that McKellen was the real star. While I enjoyed Hopkins, he seemed to be playing Hopkins, rather than Sir.
Whereas McKellen was the perfect portrayal of a sad little man whose life has now come to an end with the death of his only reason to exist. The last scene, where he sits back down in the chair and realises that there is now no future for him, was pathos at its best.
But everybody was wonderful....more like this please BBC !
What about another marvelous Dickens adaptation...like Bleak House !
Whereas McKellen was the perfect portrayal of a sad little man whose life has now come to an end with the death of his only reason to exist. The last scene, where he sits back down in the chair and realises that there is now no future for him, was pathos at its best.
But everybody was wonderful....more like this please BBC !
What about another marvelous Dickens adaptation...like Bleak House !
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