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Article: The Arts: Fulsome on stage, frozen at home THEATRE
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- November 17, 1996
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Shakespeare for My Father
Think No Evil of Us
Scrooge Oliver!
Martin Guerre
A FEW years ago Lynn Redgrave was invited to prepare an evening
of amusing family anecdotes for an audience in Washington DC. She
agreed, and it proved the starting point for something very
different, and more interesting - Shakespeare for My Father, a
one-woman show which she has frequently performed in America, and
which can now be seen at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.
There are still lots of amusing anecdotes - though they are
mainly about other actors, from Edith Evans to Richard Burton,
rather than the Redgrave family - and they enable Miss Redgrave to
display her considerable gifts as a mimic. At the heart of ...