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LESLEY MANVILLE’S Helene Alving, in Ibsen’s Ghosts. Her performance — the best interpretation of the part in years — has been captured on screen. The play, adapted and directed by Richard Eyre, was originally staged in London at the Almeida theatre, and then moved to Trafalgar Studios. It won much acclaim, and goes into Sunday’s Olivier Awards at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden with six nominations. The drama has been filmed by Digital Theatre, and will be broadcast through Cinema Live on June 26 at 200 cinemas. Visit website west end theatre series.
com for more details about participating venues. TI M PI GOTT- SMITH, Margot Leicester, Oliver Chris, Lydia Wilson and Richard Goulding, who are all great fun to watch in Mike Bartlett’s ‘ f uture history play’, King Charles III.
It’s deliciously provocative — and smart, with Bartlett’s verse spoken as if it could have been penned by the Bard.
The play imagines the Prince of Wales on t he t hrone. His central policy is to back Press freedom. All the cast was spot on the night I caught it in preview, though director Rupert Goold was still cutting bits here and there.
The play opened officially at the Almeida theatre l ast night and t here’s already chatter about a transfer — but who knows where, or when, because there’s not a f ree house available.