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...Here it is Dinklage’s height alone — the actor is 4ft 5 — that marks Cyrano out. With otherness now rooted in the star’s own actual physicality, the result feels bravely, bracingly real....
...Back too is James McAvoy with his superb, moving performance in the lead of Cyrano de Bergerac: another outsider, whose story is thrillingly recalibrated in Jamie Lloyd’s production....
...Menier Chocolate Factory, London to March 7 menierchocolatefactory.com The Boy in the Dress Heartwarming new musical penned by Mark Ravenhill, Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers and based on David Walliams...
...You can read too much into the daemon game, I know, but sometimes it seems to hit the mark. Lorien Kite is deputy editor of FT Life & Arts....
...Start with Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson; slide to Bryce Dallas Howard and Mark Wahlberg; end up with James McAvoy asked to play 24 characters....
...Yet aficionados of the grittiest, most trenchant fare love Mark’s copper Aector McAvoy, who customarily moves in a darkly realised Hull (Mark’s own stamping ground)....
...James McAvoy’s performance as the 14th Earl of Gurney — who imagines himself to be, first, the New Testament God of love, then Jack the Ripper — has garnered praise but the play offers more than that....
...And at the core of this brilliantly acted production is an outstanding performance by Mark Strong as Eddie Carbone, the Brooklyn longshoreman whose misplaced love for his niece drives him to his own destruction...
...youngvic.org, 020 7922 2922, to February 14 The Ruling Class, Trafalgar Studios, London Actor James McAvoy, who helped director Jamie Lloyd launch his second Trafalgar Transformed season here when he starred...
...Richard III, Trafalgar Studios, London Jamie Lloyd continues to produce exciting work with his Trafalgar Transformed seasons (recent productions include Macbeth with James McAvoy and The Hothouse with Simon...
...It sells a range of 150 products across the UK, supplying J Sainsbury, Waitrose and Ocado as well as producing own brand products for Marks and Spencer, Tesco and Waitrose — all from a 25,000 sq ft factory...
...Channing Tatum stars as American Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz, whose brother and fellow Olympian Dave (Mark Ruffalo) was murdered....
...There is Simon Russell Beale and Mark Rylance. After that, one starts to struggle....
...McAvoy’s performance is the film’s strong point....
...Mark Constantine, co-founder, Lush Cosmetics. Orla Corr, director, McAvoy Group. Lesley Cowley, chief executive, Nominet. Marie Crossin, chief executive, CAUSE. James Gale, for services to horseracing....
...“This will be useful politically to show how the government now has Wall Street under its thumb,” said Annemarie McAvoy, a former federal prosecutor and Morgan Stanley in-house counsel who now teaches law...
...But if I was McAvoy, I’d think twice about hiring them again....
...Hot on the heels of being kissed by James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie vocalises the striped fighter Master Tigress (taking gender correctness too far, surely?)....
...Whips-House of CommonsDeputy Chief Whip (Treasurer of HM Household) and Minister for the North East of England - The Rt Hon Nick Brown MPGovernment Whip (Comptroller of HM Household) - The Rt Hon Thomas McAvoy...
...Watch for Mark Gatiss’s brilliant Bamber Gascoigne impersonation....
...Today, he said, “marks a significant step on the road to recovery for the Conservative party”....
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