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theatre The Way of the World, Lyttelton Theatre Phyllida Lloyd has put her cast in mini-dresses and green shirts. Paul Taylor applauds the actors who refuse to be fashion victims
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In The Way of the World, all the ladies are styled "Mrs",
regardless of marital status, but Phyllida Lloyd's updated revival
in the Lyttelton is, well, more of a miss than a hit - or a Ms.
Perhaps because the director has just had a big success here with
Orton, who was influenced by the play, Congreve's complicated
comedy of intrigue over inheritance, contracts and female freedom
has been deposited in a high fashion no-man's-land, a Sixties
retro-chic world where skimpy mini-dresses are sport...
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theatre The Way of the World, Lyttelton Theatre Phyllida Lloyd has put her cast in mini-dresses and green shirts. Paul Taylor applauds the actors who refuse to be fashion victims
The Independent - London
; In The Way of the World, all the ladies are styled "Mrs", regardless of marital status, but Phyllida Lloyd's updated revival in the Lyttelton is, well, more of a miss than a hit - or a Ms. Perhaps because the director has just had a big success here with Orton, who was influenced by the play,
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The Information On `The Carmelites'
The Independent - London
; What Is It? Phyllida Lloyd's staging for the ENO of Poulenc's French Revolution opera, adapted from a play by Georges Bernanos, about Carmelite nuns facing execution. Who's In It? Elizabeth Vaughan's death-bed scene as the delirious Madame de Croissy is the evening's dramatic highlight, while there
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Opening this week The Twilight of the Gods
The Sunday Telegraph London
; It was all of four years ago that English National Opera embarked on their new Ring cycle with a sequence of concert performances, starting under ENO's former management in the unrefurbished Coliseum. This Saturday the cycle reaches its climax with the premiere of Phyllida Lloyd's new staging of
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Mamma Mia director takes on Ring cycle
Evening Standard - London
; THE GULF between Abba and Richard Wagner might seem unbridgeable, but not for Phyllida Lloyd, the director of the hit West End musical Mamma Mia. She is to become the first woman director in this country to undertake one of the most challenging projects in opera, Wagner's epic Ring cycle. Miss
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classical 2
The Sunday Telegraph London
; Macbeth LSO/Colin Davis There wasn't much fatal alchemy going on between Thomas Hampson and Violeta Urmana in the Royal Opera's revival of Verdi's Macbeth, in the Phyllida Lloyd's production of 2002. Urmana certainly has the power, range and tone for Lady Macbeth, and her 'Vieni t'affreta' was one
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Education My Schooldays Phyllida Lloyd Cultivated for the stage
The Scotsman
; What school did you go to? I was sent to a very eccentric boarding school called Lawnside in Great Malvern at the age of 11. It was less a temple to academia than a cultivation patch for wives of important men. We had prizes for things such as "good manners in difficult circumstances", which I
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BRITTEN: Gloriana
Opera News
; BRITTEN: Gloriana Barstow, Glanville, McGilloway; Ranolle, Bayley, Roberts; Chorus of Opera North, English Northern Philharmonia, Daniel. Film by Phyllida Lloyd. Opus Arte OA 0955D, 100 mins., subtitled Carefully billed as "a film based on the opera by Benjamin Britten," Phyllida Lloyd's very
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Stratford-Upon-Avon, England, and Ottawa, Canada.(GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT)(Phyllida Lloyd's 'The Penelopiad')
American Theatre
; 'THE PENELOPIAD': They're a disenfranchised bunch, those ladies of ancient lit, their stories nearly always filtered through the male perspective. (If there were any doubt, just take a look at the lineup of the event in Merida, at right.) But Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood has built her
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And what's more . . .
The Independent - London
; Kurt Weill is officially back in fashion. Phyllida Lloyd revives The Threepenny Opera at the Donmar Warehouse this Christmas, Declan Donellan will direct Mahagonny at ENO in 1995 and Robert Lepage is doing the same work for Scottish Opera in 1996 . . .
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Here we go again ... someone's been at the ouzo bottle and forgotten the plot
The Independent on Sunday
; Film 2 MammaMia! Phyllida Lloyd 108 MINS, PG Journey to the Center of the Earth Eric Brevig 92 MINS, PG Forbidden Kingdom Rob Minkoff 104 MINS, 12A In the decade since Mamma Mia! first opened in London, the Abba musical has been seen by "30 million people in 170 cities", according to the press
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