8 Hotels (NHB Modern Plays) by Nicholas Wright

Author:Nicholas Wright [Wright, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788502504
Publisher: Nick Hern Books

PEGGY

PEGGY. Remember The Lady Vanishes? The Hitchcock film in which a little old lady gets kidnapped by the Nazis? That was my mother. Dame May Whitty. A difficult mother in a way. Yet where would I be without her? When I was six years old, she pushed me on to the stage at the Albert Hall, so that in future years I could say I’d trodden the boards with Ellen Terry. When John Barrymore brought his Hamlet to London, she got me the part of a waiting-woman so I could watch him every night. It is to her that I owe my eye for acting, which is what I live by now. It’s my bread and butter. That’s what made it so very odd, a couple of weeks after Christmas, when I saw Othello again. There was a change in Paul that I simply could not put my finger on. He was still wooden. Still monotonous. But at moments of great passion, there was… oh, a clumsy rawness about him that I found quite shocking. That was new. Backstage, it seemed the affair was still going on. Though Uta was more critical of him now. I knew that something must have happened in Seattle.

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