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Article: The best seat in the house
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
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CopyrightCopyright 1997 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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It's like Opal Fruits: the cast lists alone are made to make
your mouth water. Fiona Shaw, Donald Sinden, Adrian Lester, Sheila
Gish, Mandy Patinkin, David Bamber, John Sessions. . . directors
such as Deborah Warner, Roger Michell and Sam Mendes aren't exactly
small-fry either. Were this a theatre season there would be a
glamorous press launch and a box office advance you could retire on
but, unless you are a Radio Times junkie, you probably know nothing
about it.
"It does aggravate me that Ian Holm does a Performance play, and
nobody says a word; then three weeks later he opens at the
National, and gets two pages in The Evening Standard. I don't quite
understand that." Simon Curtis, ...