In the part originally played by Maggie Smith, Lesley Manville looks as if she has had the blood sucked from her by the vampire Respectability. She runs Soft Furnishings in a department store and her weary feet are regularly seen to by a handsome Leeds podiatrist. This is the triumphant conclusion to the series of starry monologues at the Bridge Theatre – a truly heroic project to keep live theatre ticking over during lockdown. Catastrophe spoken about quietly. The sheer success of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads makes them easy to underestimate. US Election 2020: How likely is Donald Trump to win? Last night, Kristin Scott Thomas gave a tightly wound, beautifully nuanced performance as Celia, an outplayed antiques dealer, in The Hand Of God. You can see the fine actors assembled for this socially distanced season savouring them . Some of the satire of Bed Among the Lentils – with its congregation of priest-worshipping flower arrangers – has faded since the 1980s. By Robert Gore-Langton for Event Magazine, Published: 22:01 BST, 10 October 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 10 October 2020, Talking Heads: Nights In The Gardens Of Spain & Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet, Until October 31, 1hr 5mins                                 Bridge Theatre, London SE1. We’ll have a new commenting experience online soon. 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Alan Bennett serves them up, as usual, with a cosy metaphorical plate of custard creams. Three monologues - An Evening With An Immigrant, Quarter Life Crisis and Nine Lives - from Inua Ellams, Yolanda Mercy and Zodwa Nyoni will play alongside them. 2 days ago. Rochenda Sandall — breakout star of the last series of Line Of Duty — was riveting as a woman denying her suspicions about her husband’s nocturnal walks in The Outside Dog, a script inspired by the Yorkshire Ripper case. A Lady of Letters and Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet are also now playing at the Sheffield Crucible (Nov 9-11) and Leeds Playhouse (Nov 12-14). Although the form is confessional, the characters don’t know themselves. Most written more than 20 years ago, these solo plays come with a dollop of loneliness and perversion. So what would it be like, to be back? But they have always been rebels. But seeing them together you notice the recurring “he-said-I-said-he-said-I-said” tic in the scripts. The title is a rebuke to the entrenched assumption that audiences want to goggle, not to listen. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. She moves into bemusement as she discovers placid hubby was not so much a bird-watcher as a biker: she is like someone watching a perplexing telly series. No comments have so far been submitted. When is the 2020 US election and will it go forward as planned? 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And how would it feel to watch a couple of Alan Bennett “Talking Heads”, monologues made specifically for television? Greig is pitch- perfect, getting across her sensitive charm in sudden rushes of speech and then silences in this revelatory story that ends, unforgettably, with a shiver-inducing touch of evil. The Bridge season uses seven of those original scripts and The Shrine — one of two new ones Bennett gave to the Bridge’s artistic director Nicholas Hytner when he re-filmed the lot for the BBC at the start of lockdown. Playing Sandwiches & A Lady Of Letters. Still to come are soliloquies by Imelda Staunton, Tamsin Greig, Lucian Msamati and Maxine Peake. Peake’s acting is a bit knowing, but this hilarious tale of foot fetishism and benign prostitution still works a treat. The idea that a not-young woman in a not-fashionable frock might deliver an intricate chronicle is still rare. There is a lovely movement to Dolan’s delivery of The Shrine, one of two new pieces, written last year. Mugs of tea and Jesus Christ riding pillion. US Election 2020: What time is Pence vs Harris debate tonight and how do you watch it in UK? She ends in desolation, tormented by half-knowledge. Could these narrative shows, minimal in movement and free from… What is triumphantly alive is the realisation that God is no champion of good taste. She runs Soft Furnishings in a department store and her weary feet are regularly seen to by a handsome Leeds podiatrist. Talking Heads: Nights In The Gardens Of Spain & Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet. Gallery: 20 Tom Hanks movies, from worst to best (Espresso). What the papers say – September 14. Why not be the first to send us your thoughts, Parties banned, curfews, schools shut: How Europe is coping with coronavirus right now, Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott 'amazing' at coparenting, Best products to buy to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2020, Courtois backs Hazard to 'explode' for Real Madrid, Oil holds gains on shrinking U.S. stockpiles, Every model of Apple Airpods is cheaper than ever before - but time's almost up, Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article, Dentists Say This Little-Known Trick Will Easily Fix Bad Breath Forever, New Car Gadget Magically Removes Scratches & Dents. Talking Heads gives us a pure injection of Bennett’s voice and top-notch acting talent. And a delightfully acid Lesley Manville, taking on the part first played by Maggie Smith in 1988, as a vicar’s wife seeking solace in booze, and sex with an Indian shopkeeper in Bed Among The Lentils. Nicholas Hytner, one of several directors in this season of four double bills starring the new television casts, defies another rule: proving that intimate pieces can, without gee-ing up the theatricality, be absorbing in a large space. Bridge theatre, LondonThe wide-open space of the Bridge is commanded with riveting intimacy in one of four Talking Heads double bills, Last modified on Wed 16 Sep 2020 15.00 BST. Vision 2020: How soon will we know the US election outcome? Yet she is not capsized: her sentences never stop needling. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. In Nights In The Gardens Of Spain, Tamsin Greig has never been better as Fran, the timid, faltering wife who finds that her neighbour has killed her husband after years of violence and sexual humiliation. https://britishtheatre.com/review-soldiering-on-talking-heads Maxine Peake (above) is boisterous in Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet. Dolan’s Lorna, at least, is afforded a quiet dignity. Performances in rep until October 31: 0333 320 0051, bridgetheatre.co.uk. The lofty disdain of Manville’s Susan for her husband’s job and his “fan club” of female parishioners dissolves as she tells us she has yet again “run out” of sherry or fallen down the altar steps. Crushed hopes and sharp tongues. The piece is paired with Playing Sandwiches, in which Lucian Msamati plays a trusted park maintenance man with a hidden criminal record. Until October 24, 1hr 20mins. • Talking Heads continues at the Bridge theatre, London, until 31 October. These are works rooted in everyday life, that rely on the slow realisation of betrayal or failure. Frankly, you miss dialogue. Maxine Peake is more boisterous in Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet. She would lift her eyes up and roll her tongue in her mouth in a way that brought the shrivelled, bitter character of Irene Ruddock to such vivid life. 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Armed with her pen and her malevolence, she’s all alone – until the day the police come to call. Neither Monica Dolan nor Lesley Manville seem to radiate: they distil. Seeing Monica Dolan and Lesley Manville perform them live is even better They are studied in schools. It’s heroic that Hytner, his fellow directors, and the stars involved, have put these shows on in the face of Covid restrictions and government inaction.

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