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January28th

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It’s Day 4 so here’s Article #4! It comes from a 1957 Plays & Players magazine and is featured under their ‘new plays’ section. It’s titled: “The Oliviers: Titus Andronicus and his daughter Lavinia.” A noteworthy quote is about Vivien Leigh:

To say that Miss Leigh is at her most moving when her Lavinia cannot speak is only to remind the reader that she is, as it were, the Fonteyn of Drama, taking direction as a river takes rain and so absorbing it into her art that who is to know what she found in herself and what she has been lent. In a swift, resonant and amber-hued production she was most moving.

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  • Comment by David Barry — February 20, 2010 @ 2:17 pm

    I worked with Vivien Leigh in “Titus Andronicus” when I was 14, touring Europe with “my aunt Lavinia”. When we were performing at the late Stoll Theatre, the famous St.James’s Theatre was under threat and Vivien Leigh stood up in the visitors’ gallery in the House of Commons and protested, and was then forcibly evicted. She and Sir Laurence then organised a march through the West End of London, and I was privileged to head the march alongside them both. If you would like to see the photograph of this march, you will find it on my website. I have also written about 16,000 words about the “Titus Andronicus” tour in my autobiography “Flashback”, and if you go on to Amazon, there is a serach inside engine, and if you type in all the combinations of “Vivvy”, “Vivien leigh” etc, you can read the short extracts.
    All the best
    David

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