Fry Takes to Old Vic Stage with Ayckbourn & Bette Davis???
Date: 30 May 2007
In addition to screen-to-stage play
All About My Mother (See
The Goss, 11 May 2006), what else is the Old Vic’s soon-to-be-announced season likely to include? Artistic director
Kevin Spacey confirmed a year ago that, after panto success with
Ian McKellen in
Aladdin,
Stephen Fry’s new version of
Cinderella would premiere at the theatre this Christmas (See
News, 9 May 2006) – while the
Guardian reports today that Fry, who hasn’t trod the boards since fleeing with stage fright from Simon Gray’s
Cell Mates in 1995, may even appear in the production to narrate. At last year’s press conference, Spacey also laid out plans to premiere
Malcolm McKay’s
Bette and Joan (exploring the relationships between Hollywood’s Bette Davis and Joan Crawford) and
Frank McGuinness’
Londoners (based on Henry Mayhew’s Victorian text
London Labour and the London Poor), revive
Alan Ayckbourn’s
The Norman Conquests trilogy with
Matthew Warchus directing, and reunite with
Trevor Nunn, who directed him in 2005’s
Richard II.
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