Onassis
From: Thursday, 30th September 2010
To: Saturday, 8 January 2011
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Synopsis
The play portrays the complex and interweaving relationships between Onassis, Jackie Kennedy, her brother-in-law Bobby Kennedy, Maria Callas and Onassis’ son, Alexandros. It is an often explosive account of how those with great power and wealth live lives detached from the moral code of ordinary mortals.
Our Review:
13 October 2010
What is great acting? Hard to define, but you know it when you see it. And Robert Lindsay as Aristotle Socrates Onassis in a new play by Martin Sherman first seen in the Chichester Minerva Theatre, is the full mixed meat kebab: a performance of foul-mouthed arrogance, physical transformation, dominant authority and full-on vulgarian extravagance.
Sherman openly acknowledges plundering Peter Evans’ book Nemesis, in which it is suggested that Onassis conspired in, or even arranged, the assassination of Bobby Kennedy in 1968.
The play swallows this allegation and regurgitates it through the central love story of Onassis and Lydia Leonard’s square-jawed, fascinated Jackie Kennedy (he seduced the philandering JFK’s wife on his yacht while having an affair with her sister), leaving the spurned lover Maria Callas (Anna Francolini) to kvetch on the sidelines like an operatic Cassandra.
Using direct address, a chorus of ...
Latest User Review
Don - 6 January 2011:
I found the production to be very interesting and entertaining. Lindsay superb and several very good supporting performances. Great set and imaginative staging. ...
Cast
Robert Lindsay (Onassis)
Lydia Leonard (Jackie Kennedy)
Anna Francolini (Maria Callas)
Tom Austen
Liz Crowther
Ben Grove
Robert Hastie
John Hodgkinson
Sue Kelvin
Graeme Taylor
Gawn Grainger
Creative
Martin Sherman (Author)
Derby Live (Producer)
Chichester Festival Theatre (Producer)
Nancy Meckler (Director)
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