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Beat the post festive blues with an exciting season of plays exploring the highs and lows of some of the 20th Century’s most notorious stars and their rocky relationship with celebrity.
3 – 25 January 2015, Six Icons. Five Plays, One World Premiere.
The icons season includes plays about Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, Richard Burton, Dylan Thomas, Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich. All of the performances have dates where Q and A sessions with the cast and experts on the icons and screenings of iconic films are available.
Bette and Joan: The Final Curtain 3-9th of January 2015
‘You should only say good of the dead. Joan Crawford is dead. Good.’ Bette Davis.
Now on her own deathbed, Davis is forced to confront the ghost of her nemesis, Crawford herself. And of course, just because someone’s dead doesn’t mean they’ve changed… Bette & Joan: The Final Curtain’ is a wry, feisty and surprisingly moving look at two of Hollywood’s greatest icons and their equally famous feud.
Burton 10 – 15 January 2015
Winner of Best International Show at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2010
Burton vividly presents the life of the great Welsh actor in his own words from humble beginnings to Hollywood mega-stardom. Beautiful women (not least Liz Taylor), alcohol, wealth, stage and screen are the threads woven into this sad, happy, exuberant often hilarious one-man show. Drink was the only real anodyne to his deteriorating health and mental state, his doomed tempestuous relationship with Taylor and his constant guilt over the abandonment of his family.
Dylan Thomas: Clown in the Moon11 – 15 January 2015
Clown in the Moon (the title of a poem written when Dylan was 14) is a dramatic portrait of the poet’s chaotic, frequently hilarious, and all too brief life. Located in a BBC studio, it sets some of Dylan’s famous broadcasts and iconic works alongside vivid reminiscences of his clownish antics in pubs, bars and parties, and his encounters with a host of eccentric and volatile women.
The Unremarkable Death of Marilyn Monroe 16 – 18 January 2015
Monroe as we’ve never seen her before: alone in her bedroom, in dressing gown and slippers; no glitz, no glamour, no masks. Overdosed on pills, the woman behind the icon unravels her remarkable life and bares all, revealing a biting intelligence, a frustrated talent and an imperfect body. This stark confessional (DiMaggio, Gable, Miller – it’s all here) offers a radical interpretation of this Hollywood legend and leads us, in real time, to the very moment of her death.
Miss Dietrich Regrets 20- 25 January 2015
Marlene Dietrich was one of the most famous movie stars of all time. She became a legend, an icon, without apparently ever growing old. ‘Miss Dietrich Regrets’ is a revealing and poignant new look at the aging Marlene, alone in a Paris apartment, battling with her daughter to retain her independence to the very end.
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