Ladies in Lavender
From: Friday, 6th April 2012
To: Saturday, 21 April 2012
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Synopsis
An evocative, heart-warming story of unfulfilled dreams and unrequited love. Ladies In Lavender tells the tale of two sisters Ursula and Janet who live in a close-knit fishing village in picturesque Cornwall, in 1936. When a handsome and talented young Polish-Jewish violinist bound for America is washed ashore, the Widdington sisters take him under their wing and nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the mysterious young man disrupts their peaceful lives and the community in which they live.
Our Review:
13 April 2012
Aa obscure short story from 1916, made into a quiet little British film by Charles Dance in 2004, was never likely to make for an evening of intense drama and high emotion.
It’s a small tale, about two spinster sisters who find a half-drowned young foreigner washed up on the beach near their clifftop home in Cornwall, then proceed to squabble over him like lovesick girls. Nothing much happens, there’s no big climax and precious little in the way of character development. Yet it’s all done rather prettily, as it was in the film with Judi Dench and Maggie Smith.
In this new stage version, adapted by Shaun McKenna, their roles are taken respectively by Hayley Mills and Belinda Lang, and the gentle wistfulness of their playing lends the production much of its English charm. There’s good support, too, from Robert Duncan as the doctor who treats Robert Rees’s mysterious newcomer and Abigail Thaw as the visiting Russian artist who throws the spinsters’ hopes into confusi...
Latest User Review
JJS - 7 May 2012:
Unforntuanly, the reason being that this may look crammed and sightlines are bad is purely because it is a touring production, with multiple venues all of which are different stages, it just so happens the the royal and derngate is one of the smaller venues.... Maybe next time the person making the review should do some research and understannd the restraints the designer has had to work with. ...
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Shaun McKenna (from a short story by William J. Locke) (Adaptation)
Royal & Derngate (Producer)
Lee Dean (Producer)
Dan Schumann (Producer)
Nigel Hess (Music)
Robin Lefevre (Director)
Liz Ashcroft (Design)
Mick Hughes (Lighting)
John Leonard (Sound)
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