REVIEW: Berkshire Theatre Group s Importance of Being Earnest an uneven, at best, production
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Berkshire Theatre Group opens season with The Importance of Being Earnest
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It s been a strange, sad and surreal day : Peaky Blinders shares their unique on-set tribute to star Helen McCrory after her death from cancer at the age of 52
Helen s husband Damian Lewis confirmed she had passed away in a statement issued on Friday following a heroic battle with the disease
Writing in The Sunday Times , Damian said his wife had shown no fear, no bitterness, no self-pity during her illness
Damian also wrote of his sadness that Helen s passing meant she had left their children, daughter Manon, 14, and son Gulliver, 13, too early
The actor first met Helen in 2003, when they were both cast in the play Five Gold Rings at the off-West End Almeida Theatre
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Helen McCrory, who has died of cancer aged 52, was already established among the leading stage actors of her generation when she became known as Cherie Blair in Stephen Frears’s movie The Queen (2006), starring Helen Mirren, and with Michael Sheen as Tony; and as the witch Narcissa Malfoy, mother of Draco, in the last three Harry Potter films.
Her brisk and slinky Cherie Blair was one in a line of suited authority figures and lawyers played by McCrory, culminating in an acidulous, brutally frank but deluded Tory prime minister in David Hare’s television drama Roadkill (2020), refusing to give a “big job” to Hugh Laurie’s shameless MP. In comparison, Narcissa was a “turn,” a Gothic hoot, for all her verve and suffocating evil.