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Article: Remarkable Julie in Coward classic; REVIEW PRIVATE LIVES Swan Theatre Amateur Company Swan Theatre, Worcester.(News)
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- Birmingham Mail (England)
- Article date:
- February 21, 2008
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Byline: JOHN SLIM
THE performance of Julie Nunn as Amanda in this Noel Coward classic is quite remarkable, in that it is deliberately theatrical and melodramatic and left me, for one, wondering whether to praise her for sustaining it so unfalteringly or to complain that it is too much for too long.
She has a wild expressiveness in her face, an armoury of extravagance in her gestures, a shrill delivery and the ability to change in a trice from a raging tigress to a repentent kitten or a silly little girl.
She is difficult to keep up with, but this is the demand she makes of the audience in Brian Burton's absorbing ...