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Dench Whishaw Logan
#1
Posted 05 January 2013 - 11:37 AM
#2
Posted 05 January 2013 - 01:39 PM
#3
Posted 06 January 2013 - 01:22 PM
A winning combination - looks good!
#6
Posted 16 March 2013 - 09:15 PM
http://www.independe...an-8537473.html
http://www.guardian....ishaw-interview
http://www.bbc.co.uk...t-arts-21799563
#7
Posted 16 March 2013 - 09:35 PM
Interesting that Ben's characters name in the play is Peter Llewelyn Davies.
#8
Posted 19 March 2013 - 05:42 PM
Interesting that Ben's characters name in the play is Peter Llewelyn Davies.
Good spot. It's a nice detail, but entirely coincidental, of course. Peter Llewelyn Davies
Pleased to say that I managed to get tickets to PETER AND ALICE, so all being well I'll be seeing Ben and Judi up close at the end of April. I'm not much of a theatre-goer, but certainly looking forward to this.
#9
Posted 26 March 2013 - 02:32 AM
dailymail26march 2013
Dame Judi Dench stars in a new West End play with Ben Whishaw, the young actor who plays Q in the latest James Bond film alongside Dame Judi’s spy boss M.
How cleverly commercial of director Michael Grandage to pair the two.
Here they are Alice and Peter. Alice Liddell Hargreaves was Lewis Carroll’s inspiration for Alice in Wonderland. Peter Llewelyn Davies, on whom JM Barrie drew for Peter Pan.
Playwright John Logan learned that the elderly Alice and the adult Peter once met – in a London bookshop in 1932.
He imagines what they might have said to each other and how their experiences as childhood muses, possibly as the people who ignited the two most influential children’s stories of all, affected them. Did it send them round the bend?
Dame Judi and Mr Whishaw are good, she almost Queen Motherly these days, he so sensitive, so irredeemably moist, that he could do with sponging.
But the play, while admirably high-minded and interesting, is inevitably a bit doom-laden. How can a story which looks back so much, not least on the losses of the First World War, be anything but sorrowful?
The gorgeously created back room of the bookshop (design by Christopher Oram) soon lifts to give us a classic proscenium arch decorated with children’s fairy-tale illustrations of Alice’s Wonderland adventures and Peter Pan’s foe Captain Hook.
Into this tunnel of dreams are thrust backdrops suggesting everything from the spires of Oxford to the trenches of the western front.
The adult Peter recalls that Hook was every little boy’s idea of fear: an end to summer, a time when we are separated from our siblings, when our parents have gone.
This is one of several passages of a bleakness that is poetic and beautiful.
A short speech, again from the Peter who gave his name to eternal youth, describes the ‘inescapable loneliness’ parents can feel when their babes have flown. Mr Logan’s script is eloquent but not always theatrical.
He gives us other characters: we meet clergyman Carroll (Nicholas Farrell), who is presented as a chaste pederast.
We meet a slightly cruel Barrie (Derek Riddell) as well as the fictitious Alice (Ruby Bentall, who mispronounces ‘Cheshire cat’) and Peter Pan (a fey turn from Olly Alexander). They just about alleviate the blizzard of words.
But they can not stop the thing rolling to its inevitable conclusion: the old grim reaper.
The hole in the play, unless we take fairies to be a metaphor for angels, is its absence of religious consideration.
‘We are a family of corpses,’ wails the grown-up Peter.
Alice looks on a brighter side of life but she is not long for this world.
Well done, but not exactly a ray of hope for Easter, this one.
#10
Posted 26 March 2013 - 02:40 AM
#11
Posted 07 April 2013 - 12:05 AM
mirror 7 apr 2013
Skyfall actor Ben Whishaw rescues hurt fan
The actor called an ambulance for 16-year-old Katherine Dodds and waited with her until it arrived
Skyfall star Ben Whishaw leapt into action when a teenage girl was injured in a crush of excited fans.
The actor, who made his debut as gadget master Q in the latest James Bond movie, called an ambulance for 16-year-old Katherine Dodds and waited with her until it arrived.
He also fetched a blanket for Katherine as she lay on the ground in agony from dislocated knees.
She had travelled from Yorkshire to London to see Ben and Dame Judi Dench in the play Peter and Alice and was waiting to get autographs after the show.
Fans raced to the front when word got round that Judi was leaving that way and Katherine fell. Ben, 32, invited her to meet him and his co-star when she is well.
Katherine said: “I can’t believe it was Ben. He was such a gentleman.”
A spokesman for the star said: “He was happy to help and make sure she was ok.”
http://www.mirror.co...rescues-1816334
#12
Posted 02 May 2013 - 08:39 PM