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...Dazzling when it first opened in 2019, it now returns to the West End (before travelling to Glasgow and New York) in blistering form, led by a phenomenal performance from James McAvoy....
...For the first time, Florian Zeller (writer of The Father) chooses to premiere a new play in the UK: The Forest, about a man in crisis (Hampstead Theatre from February 5)....
...August 27 No Time to Die$600m was the rumoured asking price at which studio backer MGM would have considered selling the new James Bond movie No Time to Die to Netflix or Apple....
...The latter, played with flighty self-absorption by Lisa O’Hare, is more concerned about her boyfriend, an estate agent who seems at once devious and oafish in James Hillier’s portrayal....
...Danny Kirrane, as giggling, grasping son Semyon, Arthur Huges as petulant son Pavel and Amber James as icily poised daughter Anna are all great, as is Alexandra Dowling as an abused maid....
...But what’s really clever about them is their dry, mischievous wit and their lightness of touch: something James Macdonald’s exemplary, superbly acted production embraces....
...“I think that as you go on doing this job, you actually want to feel scared,” says James Macdonald. “I’m interested in doing plays that I don’t know how to do.”...
...Kenneth Cranham took the best actor award for his searing performance as a man losing his faculties to dementia in The Father, written by French playwright Florian Zeller and translated by Christopher Hampton...
...Florian Zeller’s play was raved about on its British premiere at the Ustinov in Bath this time last year....
...James Macdonald’s excellent, precise staging (first seen at the Theatre Royal, Bath) shifts the tone imperceptibly, while Miriam Buether’s set subtly changes from scene to scene....
...Longhurst and his cast deliver the horror but also the comedy, with James Garnon shining in the dark as a wonderfully dim toff....
...James Macdonald, master of the elusive drama, directs this production....
...£9.40 Vine Trail Lemos & van Zeller, Baronesa de Vilar 2008 Douro 20% Touriga Nacional, 25% Touriga Franca and 55% traditional port varieties....
...Wilhelm Zeller, Hannover Re’s chief executive, said the company should achieve a 15 per cent return on equity....
...Wilhelm Zeller, chief executive of the German reinsurer, said the company had felt the “headwind due to the difficult situation on the global capital markets” but Hannover Re, which has limited subprime...
...Wilhelm Zeller, chief executive of Hannover Re, expects reinsurance price “reactions” to these weather events....
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