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Article: Remarkable Julie in Coward classic ; REVIEW PRIVATE LIVES Swan Theatre Amateur Company Swan Theatre, Worcester
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- February 21, 2008
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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 ...