Edward Fox - Trollope in Barsetshire
From: Tuesday, 22nd February 2011
To: Saturday, 2 April 2011
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Our Review:
Jo Caird - 25 February 2011
Trollope in Barsetshire sees veteran stage and screen actor Edward Fox give a flawless performance as the 19th-century novelist and various of his colourful and well-loved Barset characters. A magnificently bearded Fox beautifully captures Trollope’s wry humour in this piece drawn from his Barsetshire novels and his autobiography.
The extracts are cleverly chosen, giving a sense of narrative continuity and a taste of an emotional journey to this evening of story-telling. Sensitive direction by Richard Digby Day ensures that Fox’s parodies of characters such as Mrs Proudie and Archdeacon Grantly don’t overwhelm the piece, and the inclusion of a particularly moving excerpt from Framley Parsonage reminds the audience of Trollope’s immense skill in rendering the more complex aspects of human nature.
The show’s format, although largely undramatic, allows us to admire Trollope’s prose in its undilut...
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