Les Parents Terribles
From: Thursday, 25th November 2010
To: Saturday, 18 December 2010
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Synopsis
A bohemian household in ‘30s Paris. When Michael declares his love for a girl, his devoted mother burns with jealousy while his father is shocked to discover that his son's lover is someone he knows only too well.
Our Review:
30 November 2010
The last London production of Jean Cocteau’s Les Parents Terribles featured an unknown actor called Jude Law climbing naked up the back wall of the Lyttelton Theatre.
Director Chris Rolls’ revival – the third and final production in the Donmar Warehouse’s season at Trafalgar Studios 2 – cannot compete on that score, and it sometimes has to shout to be heard over End of the Rainbow, its noisy neighbour in the main house.
But it does offer Frances Barber as the over-protective Yvonne, a decadent middle-class slob who has fits of jealous – if not incestuous – hysteria when her grown-up son gets a girlfriend. No one does over-the-top grotesques quite like Barber: spitting hoarse venom, she is in her element in a role that might have been written for her.
Equally, no one does acerbic deadpan quite like Sylvestra Le Touzel, a disgracefully under-appreciated actress, as Yvonne’...
Cast
Frances Barber (Yvonne)
Tom Byam Shaw (Michael)
Anthony Calf (George)
Elaine Cassidy (Madeleine)
Sylvestra Le Touzel (Leo)
Creative
Jean Cocteau (Author)
Donmar Warehouse (Producer)
Jeremy Sams (Translation)
Chris Rolls (Director)
Andrew Edwards (Design)
Richard Howell (Lighting)
Ben Ringham (Music)
Max Ringham (Music)
Ben Ringham (Sound)
Max Ringham (Sound)
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