John Robinson (
Behind the Iron Mask) has crafted the libretto for the piece, playing at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 18 and 19 June 2021. The show will also be filmed fo future streaming, with plans for further live performances as well.
Lady Chatterley s Lover is directed by the award-winning Sasha Regan (
Blondel) with original libretto by Phil Willmott (
Relativity: The Einstein Musical), and production design by Andrew Exeter (
High Fidelity).
Robinson comments, I am thrilled to be back in the West End with my latest musical – it s a project very close to my heart given my own roots in D H Lawrence country and I hope to give due justice to both the ground-breaking novel as well as the area in which it is set. By recording the show for streaming later this year we re also guaranteeing it a fabulous future life to ensure more audiences can enjoy the work.
Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in the 2000 film version of American Psycho
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The 30th birthday of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel American Psycho is not a universal cause for celebration. Many people have found something almost offensive about the anniversary falling at a time when men are being asked to think urgently about how to make the world safer for women. Even Ellis himself, when I ask him about his most famous work, admits, “It wouldn’t be published today.”
The fact that it remains in print – and has spawned a hit film and even a stage musical – will be seen by some as an indictment of the fundamental misogyny of Western society. Back in 1991, one feminist campaigner denounced American Psycho as a “how-to novel on the torture and dismemberment of women”.
Christian De Sica s Capri villa up for sale
Property part of the historic I Quattro Venti residence
28 Aprile 2021
ROME, APR 28 - The Capri villa that Italian actor
Christian De Sica and his wife Silvia Verdone have owned since
1996 is now on sale exclusively via Florence s Lionard Luxury
Real Estate agency.
The property is part of the I Quattro Venti (The Four Winds)
residence, one of the historic homes that contributed to giving
the blue island its fabled status: designed and built on the
slopes of Monte Solaro between 1900 and 1903 by American
symbolist painter Elihu Vedder, it was subsequently sold to
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You may think there is no hotel in London like the Claremont, where Mrs. Palfrey becomes a lodger. No hotel where respectable gentlefolk can live by the month and have their breakfasts and dinners served to them in a dining room where good manners prevail. No hotel where the bellman is an aged ruin who nevertheless barks commands at the desk clerk. No hotel where the elevator is a brass cage that rises and falls majestically and discharges its passengers from behind ornate sliding doors.
But here and there such relics survive. A very few of my readers will have stayed at the Eyrie Mansion on Jermyn Street when it was run by Henry and Doddy Togna, and they will nod in recognition, although the mansion, to be sure, had no dining room. They will remember Bob the hall porter, who drove Henry crazy by getting drunk every eighth day ( If Bob got drunk every seventh day, on a regular schedule like, we could plan for it ).
Louis Menand’s new book traces the decline of a defining ideal.
ILLUSTRATION BY LINDSAY BALLANT
In America today, the right has a monopoly on the word “freedom.” Conservatives talk about “freedom” at every opportunity, while liberals and leftists do so only with embarrassment, shielded with qualifying clauses. “First they came for our Free Speech, then they came for our Free Markets, next they’ll come for our Free Shipping on orders $50 or more with promo code: FREEDOM50,” Republican Representative Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina tweeted on January 28, 2021. Cawthorn’s tweet which rewrites Martin Niemöller’s famous denunciation of German quietism in the face of Hitler’s rise as a sales pitch for his official campaign webstore is a joke, of course: a play on different senses of the word “free.” But it’s a joke only a conservative could make, because it relies on the assumption that freedom, of whatever kind, is a self-evident, and preeminent, good. A