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Suddenly Last Summer

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Suddenly Last Summer Closed August 2004
 Play by Tennesse Williams, directed by Michael Grandage.  Sebastian died suddenly last summer. His mother clings to him in death as she clung to him in life. In the sultry heat of New Orleans she plans her act of revenge on the girl she believes stole Sebastian from her. Tennessee Williams is theatre’s poet of impossible love and this, one of his finest plays, is given a new production by Sheffield Theatres’ award-winning Associate Director, Michael Grandage.

Cast features Victoria Hamilton and Diana Rigg.  An outstanding cast headed by Diana Rigg and Victoria Hamilton  Daily Telegraph  Michael Grandage's satisfying production piles on the emotional excess with relish. The production is cunningly staged in a cylindrical hothouse of nast tropical plants and eerie screeching birds - the perfect setting for a drama from the heart of the human jungle Daily Express  The performances have an emotional truth that gives the hideous reality of a living nightmare" Mail On Sunday

SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
Albery Theatre
St Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4AH.

Nearest Tube: Leicester Square.

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Performance Times:
Evenings: Monday to Saturday at 8.00pm
Matinees: Wednesday at 3.00pm and Saturday at 4.00pm
No matinee on Wed 30 June

Note: No latecomers will be admitted

Performance length: 1 hour and 35 minutes, no interval
 

 

Prices: (including booking fee and VAT)
Stalls £51.00
Royal Circle £51.00
Grand Circle £40.00

Closed August 2004
 

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Suddenly Last Summer Closed August 2004
 Michael Grandage's superb production of Suddenly Last Summer begins with a coup de théâtre that looks and sounds like a monumental pun on the idea of opening a can of worms. To the clang of unnerving metallic blows the great iron drum of Christopher Oram's brilliant set splits apart to reveal the wondrously morbid arena for this short and shocking play by Tennessee Williams... In the role of Violet, Diana Rigg effects an astonishingly complete and compelling transformation. Waving a stick and decked out in a white wig, she plays Violet as a game old bird of prey... [Victoria Hamilton] brings her extraordinary talent for emotional truth and transparency to the tricky role of Catharine.
The Independent

Theatre Review

Suddenly Last Summer  ...The play is essentially a balanced pair of spoken arias. First we hear Diana Rigg’s Mrs Venable, a silver-wigged, cane-wielding bully in mauve and lace with the venomous rasp of a predatory creature... Victoria Hamilton is a memorably haunted and brittle Catharine, one already subjected to cruel asylum treatment. In a concluding speech... Hamilton makes its increasing exoticism viscerally real and heart-rendingly intense. Grandage’s production does much the same but can’t camouflage the play’s weaknesses... By the end, though, as Oram’s drum snaps shut like a Venus flytrap, you feel that tortured souls rather than star turns are being incarcerated in tormented solitude. That’s the triumph of Grandage’s revival and its two lead performances.
The Times

 

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