Battling through the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing lockdowns has left many of us feeling desperate to escape, see the world, and have new experiences. This is why actress Lily James, 32, believes her latest project, The Pursuit Of Love – about two best friends keen to discover who they are and live life to the full – will particularly resonate with people right now. “This will be a wonderful show for people to watch, because it’s such a celebration of life,” elaborates the Surrey-born star, famous for Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! and Cinderella. “And it’s so funny; there’s the satire and the wit and the honesty, and a bohemian lifestyle that I think is very provocative and intoxicating. It will be really fun for people to watch.”
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Feeling happier yet? I ask chiefly because some of us seem, on the cusp of release from lockdown, grimly resistant to mere possibilities of better things; of this vale of tears not, after all, being scheduled soon to tip from handcart to Styx. Granted, it all depends rather where you live, how wealthy you might be, and no one likes a smug smiler, but, sometimes, y’know… come
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Samson Kayo and Jane Horrocks talks to us about the making of Bloods, the hilarious paramedic comedy on Sky One and NOW. By Becky Gamester-Newton Published: 26 April 2021 - 7.35am By Press Association Published: 26 April 2021 - 7.35am
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And he is tipped to share the stage with Jessie Buckley, who will play Sally Bowles.
This column can reveal that a new production of Cabaret starring the powerhouse duo of Redmayne and Buckley is due to begin performances at the Playhouse Theatre, near the Embankment in London, in early November.
The show is centred on a seedy Berlin after-hours haunt called the Kit Kat Klub, in the last gasp of the Weimar Republic, as the Nazis ascend to power.
Joe Masteroff wove his story about a naïve Englishman who goes to Berlin; a cabaret with a grotesque host; and the joint s star turn, the English Fraulein Sally Bowles from Christopher Isherwood s The Berlin Stories and John Van Druten s play I Am A Camera.