The Last of the Duchess

Archive Listings for The Last of the Duchess

T1975742074 (HAMPSTEAD11) Producer Hampstead Theatre. Director Richard Eyre. Design Anthony Ward. Sound John Leonard. Lighting Peter Mumford. Performer Sheila Hancock (Suzanne Blum). Performer Anna Chancellor (Caroline Blackwood). Performer Angela Thorne (Lady Mosley). Performer Conrad Asquith. Performer Helen Bradbury. Performer Jasmine Daniel. Performer John Heffernan.
20 Oct 11 to 26 Nov 11	Hampstead Theatre, Inner London :: V202 listing details L1145836140

Details

Play :: In an upstairs bedroom in a mansion near Versailles, Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor lies near the end of her life. Based on Caroline Blackwood’s biographical portrait of the Duchess, the play’s subject was soon eclipsed by the formidable attorney Maitre Suzanne Blum. Is this eccentric and energetic French presence determined to protect the Duchess - or perhaps hide unscrupulous manipulation of her money and fame?

Author

Nicholas Wright (based on the book by Caroline Blackwood)