| Subject: Re: Sheila Hancock Will Star in Pinter's Birthday Party in London |
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Date Posted: Thursday, March 27, 05:36:40am
In reply to:
Janet
's message, "Sheila Hancock Will Star in Pinter's Birthday Party in London" on Thursday, March 27, 03:31:28am
wow sounds great!
leila, are you going? and when?
i would love to clear my agenda to go with you!!
sandra
>Just in case anyone is intested, i thought i'd post
>this for you, as i got the news this morning.
>Janet.
>
>
>Veteran actress Sheila Hancock will star in a 50th
>anniversary production of Harold Pinter's The Birthday
>Party at the Lyric Hammersmith, where the play
>received its first London run in 1958.
>
>The new production scheduled for May 8-24 will also
>renew a long-standing association for the actress and
>playwright with both each other and this theatre.
>
>As Hancock notes in a press statement, "I first met
>Harold when we worked together in weekly repertory in
>1956-57. I remember seeing The Birthday Party at the
>Lyric in 1958 — one of the few people who did — and
>being astounded that my fellow actor was a brilliant
>writer. In 1959 I appeared in a revue at the Lyric
>Hammersmith called One to Another in which my best
>role was that of a lady tramp in a sketch with Beryl
>Reid — by Harold Pinter. I did it at the Lyric again
>in 1997 this time with Dawn French. It is a great joy
>for me to be reunited with Harold and to be returning
>to The Lyric Hammersmith."
>
>Hancock was most recently seen on the London stage
>when she won a Laurence Olivier Award for her role in
>the current revival of Cabaret at the Lyric
>Hammersmith, in which she played Fraulein Schneider.
>Other leading roles in musicals have included playing
>Miss Hannigan in Annie and Mrs. Lovett in the original
>1980 production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd at
>the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
>
>For the Pinter, she will be joined by a cast that
>includes Nicholas Woodeson (currently starring in
>Legal Fictions at the Savoy, and who previously
>appeared in Sam Mendes' National Theatre revival of
>The Birthday Party and Pinter's The Homecoming,
>directed by Peter Hall at the West End's Comedy
>Theatre), Lloyd Hutchinson (who has appeared alongside
>Pinter in his play One for the Road in New York in
>2001, and whose recent credits include Rhinoceros at
>the Royal Court), Justin Salinger and Alan Williams.
>
>The Lyric's artistic director David Farr is working
>closely with Pinter on this production, and said in a
>press statement, "When I suggested to Harold Pinter
>the idea of celebrating the anniversary, I was struck
>by his enthusiasm for the idea, and by his vivid
>memories of the fate of the original production. The
>Lyric has a proud history of theatrical risk-taking
>and Pinter's The Birthday Party stands as a
>significant part of that tradition I am thrilled that
>Sheila Hancock is leading such a wonderful cast of
>actors to join Harold and me on this journey. Sheila
>is a Lyric legend and we are thrilled to have her
>back."
>By Mark Shenton
>To book tickets, contact the box office at 0871 22 117
>22, or for more details, visit www.lyric.co.uk.
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