LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Vanessa Redgrave: National Theatre
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Having given birth to daughter Natasha in 1963, Redgrave would make a triumphant return to the London stage the next year in as Nina in The Seagull, directed by her husband and once more at the Queen's. She'd then bear a second daughter, Joely, before making a second sparkling return when taking the title role in The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie at the Wyndham Theatre. By now, though, despite the extra time-pressures of motherhood, she had four screen appearances in the can, all of them released in 1966. First would come a TV miniseries take on Hemingway's WWI drama A Farewell To Arms, where George Hamilton would play the Hemingway character and Redgrave the nurse with whom he conducts both an affair and a hair-raising escape to Switzerland. Next would come Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment, a funky satire and wild fantasy where David Warner would play a working-class artist obsessed with gorillas who tries to stop posh ex-wife Vanessa from marrying fellow toff Robert Stephens. Gradually losing his mind, he attempts kidnapping and terrorism and is eventually sent to an asylum, where he becomes a Communist.
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For two hours, Redgrave watched with rapt attention as students performed excerpts from Anton Chekhov's plays, and made thoughtful comments on their work and on the acting profession. "This is a working session," she announced, and proceeded largely as if the packed audience in Rooke Theatre were not present. MHC actors Dorien Davies, Mary Haddad, S. Ann Hall, Laconia Koerner, and Danielle O'Connell were joined by Five College colleagues Maryna Harrison, Mollie Hensley, Jesus MacLean, and Shaka Taylor-Harris.
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Redgrave said: "This is a wonderful shop window in the heart of Covent garden Theatreland. To lose it would be dreadful." Zafferano have catered numerous events at the Theatre Museum over the last ten years - to find out more about staging an event at the Theatre Museum, contact the events team at Zafferano.
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