Man, you must be joking. This beautiful music is evidence only of man's creativity, and the ability to rise above the belief in a good guy somewhere in the sky.
Just been re-watching " Present Laughter ", on RU-vid. Recommended ! 😊 Donald Sinden, Gwen Watford, Dinah Sheridan. With Julian Fellows ( now known for Downton Abbey), as the creepy "Mr. Maul ", from Uckfield (" it's near Lewes..." )😊📖 🇬🇧📖⭐💙🦉😊🇬🇧
5 mins 10 sec's, Noel mentioned Lunt and Fontanne, the famous acting duo in USA. There is a substantial Wikipedia entry about them😊 . They had a place called "Ten Chimneys" , now a treasured centre ref ' drama.😊⭐📖 🦉Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman did several " mickey-takes" ( I'm sure made affectionately) with parody theatre stars, " Lunt and Fontaine ", in the Carol Burnett Show " .🇬🇧😊⭐🦉 🇬🇧🌈💙⭐😊📖🇬🇧
Ive come back after some time, to watch it again. Everyone was very competent. Memorable bits : ( don't mind me. I notice the ' visuals "): The set is just right. Very nicely done The bit of " business" " Ggary" smoothing his hair when passing the mirror , the " creepy " playwright ( gushes, "I think you're WONDERFUL !" ), and that lovely door, with sea view. Have also heard this play on the radio .😊... And the bit about over- acting ...." Now you have GONE TOO FAR !!!"😊. What a treat.😊⭐🏆 🇬🇧😊📖⭐💙🌈🇬🇧
There is nothing on the stage today to compare with this. I LOVED it!! My only regret is not seeing it live on stage 😢😢. Im in Australia and i know that if this play was presented here, it would pale into insignificance compared to this older English version.
So, we are supposed to accept that the Donald Sinden character is actually attracted to women? I don't believe that such a man has ever existed. I just can't buy it.
An Unofficial Rose was made into a teleseries by BBC2 in 1974. It looks to have been exquisitely cast, written and directed... I wish it was available to watch, somewhere on the internet - anyone have any clues?
I’ve had the pleasure of seeing the play a couple of time. One performance had the highlight of Edward Fox playing the Valet, always a superb performance, and the other with Rik Mayall as the lead. Rik, was Rik. If you’ve saw him on stage, you’ll know what I mean. Very funny, kept the cast guessing as to what he was going to do next, and a lot of playing to the audience. Especially when flicking the v’s to the audience when he fluffed a line. It was less than conventional but hilarious.
I stood in front of one of his paintings, almost exactly like the one at 50:00, and it was really intense, I stood right in front of it and it was just coming right at me, 3 dimensional and super alive. It was one of the best they had, at the museum of Modern Art in New York. His and the Picasso's really stood out to me as the most interesting and exciting in the entire museum
It is not politically correct to say so I am afraid but I qualified as a social worker in Australia in 1976 and at no time have I done anything but act. My study of coward even in my family upbringing and during social work training gave me incredible resilience from.roles in social activism to palliative care. Despite the naive view about feelings being necessary to work with people Noel coward demonstrates the aloof science of theatre
He's an okay actor, no John Barrymore et al.. as Orson Welles said about Barrymore, there is none like him the best and had that certain thing. I think Coward is better as a raconteur.
This is by far the best production of Present Laughter that I have seen (and I've seen a few)! I keep watching it every year! Donald Sinden and the four female leads are just superb - unmatched really!
I love Abstract Expressionism but I have to say that I'm glad that the Pop Artists came along and turned the tough, drunken cowboy, John Wayne with a paintbrush ideal into a subject of mockery. That sort of insecurity about maintaining a sense of manhood in what was considered an effete profession is just really a massive waste of time and energy. The AbEx painters had a lot of great ideas and I wish people would have focused more on their philosophies and not on how rowdy and aggressive they were when they drank.
Her mind and body are held in balance: she was a writer, thinker, artist, philosopher; and she smiles from the mind. Egoless, charming, at one with the interviewer-critic.
