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...Like the Garrick Club, Buck’s has faced its controversy over its all-male membership rules....
...The Garrick Club What it is: the Garrick is, as everyone knows now, an all-male members’ establishment....
...At a London dinner in late 2021 at the Garrick Club, Peterson introduced him to Paul Marshall....
...Like Mai, he glided through the upper echelons of society, befriending figures such as Samuel Johnson, the statesman Edmund Burke and the actor David Garrick....
...‘Hamnet’, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, April 1-June 17; then Garrick Theatre, London, September 30-January 6 2024, rsc.org.uk Sarah Hemming is the FT’s theatre critic Find out about our latest stories...
...Meanwhile, John Hudson’s stoic servant plods through it all....
...Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble, all eyeing the stripling with cautious disfavour....
...Johnson controversially flew back from the COP26 summit in Glasgow to London to attend a Telegraph journalists’ reunion at the Garrick that evening, and was pictured by the Mirror leaving the club with Moore...
...John Riddy’s superb urban photographs (2006-08) here include a trio of towering, elegant sash windows, backlit by a room of theatrical portraits — Johan Zoffany’s “David Garrick” and a silken-costumed performance...
...Yet he thought Paris “all gilt and beshit”, and his storytelling conviction rests in disrupting elegance: a French collector, encountering Hogarth’s paintings in actor David Garrick’s home, exclaimed “it...
...Upstream from Eel Pie is Garrick’s Ait, near Hampton Court Palace, and then Taggs Island, which has a narrow car bridge....
...“Upsetting people is the point of theatre,” observed John Malkovich recently about his role in David Mamet’s new play Bitter Wheat (at the Garrick Theatre)....
...With his puckish mien and broad theatrical technique, the English actor could be treading the boards any time before David Garrick popularised a more realistic playing style in the mid-18th century....
...Garrick also gives his name to a small island in the Thames — Garrick’s Ait — where homes are accessible only by boat....
...One member of The Garrick, a 186-year-old club in Covent Garden in London’s West End, popular with the grander actors and writers, says: “There is a strict rule prohibiting members from bringing out papers...
...She once said: “I regard it as quite shocking that so many of my colleagues belong to the Garrick Club.”...
...Bestsellers were engravings of Gainsborough’s portrait of David Garrick entwined with a bust of Shakespeare, and Hogarth’s “David Garrick as Richard III” (1745), which inaugurated the large-scale, heroic...
...Nor had his reputation improved by the end of the century when the poet laureate, John Dryden, wrote: “That which the World called Wit in Shakespeare’s age, is laughed at as improper for our stage.”...
...John Webster and John Ford were the coming men. The entire theatrical professional suffered a huge setback in 1642 when the Puritans closed the London playhouses....
...Her husband Richard is a fund manager at Crux Asset Management; sister-in-law Carolyn is married to former Barclays boss John Varley....
...Michael Pennington and John Shrapnel put in fine work as lords. But it is in the women that the staging really finds its heart....
...The season, which starts in October, includes a new staging of John Osborne’s The Entertainer, and Rob Brydon in an adaptation of Francis Veber’s The Painkiller....
...A writer of poetry, prose and music, he counted among his society friends David Garrick, the Shakespearean actor, and Laurence Sterne, author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, bankers and artists...
...His services have been employed by a sprinkling of royalty plus giants of industry and history, from Lord Browne to Sir Elton John, and across the world from Beijing to the Hamptons....
...They open at London’s Garrick Theatre next month....
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