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T1471840131 (FINBOROUGH09) Performance length 2 hours.Producer Finborough. Director Peter Cregeen. Design Alex Marker. Performer Nichola McAuliffe. Performer Patrick Ryecart.
3 Feb 09 to 14 Mar 09	Finborough, Inner London :: V199 listing details L0672775539

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Play :: Paris in the 1980's. Dazed by prescription medication, a frail old American lady is a prisoner in a grey imposing mansion on the Bois de Boulogne. She was once the most famous woman in the world. Her name is Wallis, Duchess of Windsor. Her crime was to fall in love with a member of the British Royal family ­ the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII ­ precipitating his abdication from the throne to marry for love: the greatest crisis ever to befall the House of Windsor and a grave threat to the British Constitution itself. Ten years after his death, attended only by a shadowy butler, we find Wallis in a twilight world where her beloved 'David' has never really left her. As she refuses to relinquish the vivid memories of her extraordinary past, we soon discover why the incarceration of this vibrant and stylish woman is so vital to those whose lives she changed so dramatically. Her past is too full, the damage to her husband's family too great, her ostracisation too complete for her to be anything other than a dangerously loose cannon...

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Lena Farugia