October 05, 2016
Robert Shuman
Bob Shuman, MFA, is a playwright, college professor, book writer, composer, agent, and editor of three titles in the Applause Theatre & Cinema Books Acting Series.
Bob Shuman, MFA, is a playwright, college professor, book writer, composer, agent, and editor of three titles in the Applause Theatre & Cinema Books Acting Series.
***** STOPPARD: ‘TRAVESTIES’ (SV PICK, UK)
(Dominic Cavendish’s article appeared in the Telegraph, 10/4.)
The good fortunes of the Menier Chocolate Factory’s revival of this golden oldie from the Tom Stoppard back-catalogue – sold out before its opening night – owe not a little to the twinkly-eyed presence in the cast of Tom Hollander.
This year, the much-loved actor has attracted new fans and neatly overturned many people’s assumptions about his cosy gentility (an inevitable by-product of his unmissable self-penned sitcom Rev) by playing Hugh Laurie’s distinctly unholy side-kick “Corky” in The Night Manager.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/travesties-menier-chocolate-factory-review-tom-hollander-is-hila/
Photos: UK Telegraph.
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