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Amanda Lawrence plays Charles Hawtrey

Started by Shana A, November 04, 2009, 01:01:18 PM

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Shana A

November 04, 2009, 01:01:18 PM
Amanda Lawrence plays Charles Hawtrey
Amanda Lawrence's incarnation of Charles Hawtrey is uncanny


Patrick Strudwick

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article6901239.ece

Men playing women is as old as theatre itself. Women playing men playing women is a considerably more novel proposition. Next week, as part of Homotopia, Liverpool's cultural jamboree of all things lesbian, gay and transgender, Amanda Lawrence will play Charles Hawtrey, the cross-dressing star of the Carry On films, in a one-"man" show called Jiggery Pokery.

The production explores the polarities of the actor's life, from celebrated performer to solipsistic sot. As Lawrence, 38, shifts between episodes from his childhood, old age, film and theatre work, she also impersonates those he met along the way, including Laurence Olivier, Barbara Windsor and Hawtrey's beloved, senile mother.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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