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...Fanny’s browbeaten son David (a lovely, fidgety performance from Geoffrey Streatfeild) and wise servant Anise (Kate Duchêne, wonderfully beady and precise) are intrigued; the interest of the Romanian count...
...Duchêne particularly excellent), the dry sarcasm of the Chorus (Millicent Wong) and the sombre portrayal of the French king, whose scenes are delivered in French with English surtitles....
...The musical by Nancy Harris (book and lyrics) and Marc Teitler (music and lyrics), set around a century ago and drawn from Kate DiCamillo’s fantastical 2009 novel, was meant to open last year....
...God, who moves in mysterious ways — here with a mop and bucket, as an all-seeing cleaning lady (wearily kind Kate Duchêne) — tells us that after the boozy, coked-up excesses of his 40th birthday party, Everyman...
...The nursery setting becomes tied in with grief and guilt, explaining the long absence of Kate Duchêne’s emotionally volatile Ranevskaya and her near fatalistic inertia....
...Groundbreaking director Katie Mitchell stages this production, with Kate Duchêne playing Madame Ranevskaya and Dominic Rowan (who starred here in A Doll’s House, also adapted by Stephens) as Lopakhin....
...Kate Duchêne’s witch is neatly pitched between weirdly funny and creepy and is furnished with a juicy solo justifying her choice of diet (music, by Paul Clark, played by John Paul Gandy on an absurdly augmented...
...The rest is all recounted by Kate Duchêne and Nikki Amuka-Bird into their desk microphones, punctuated by (wonderfully executed) time-lapse sequences to indicate the trial’s duration of more than 400 days...
...And characters grow in stature when their star has fallen: the Duke of Buckingham, the rejected queen (a touchingly dignified Kate Duchêne) and even Cardinal Wolsey deliver moving speeches once they have...
...Duchêne)....
...Here, Trojan queen Hecuba (a strong performance by Mitchell stalwart Kate Duchêne), her daughters and townswomen have scarcely the spirit or energy for outright grief or terror....
...Just then Kate Gallagher, a British mother of two, arrives to load her children into the family car....
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