Tuesday
14th January 2003
Rik
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Local
boy Rik Mayall comes to Malvern playing the lead in one of Noel Coward's
best known plays. |
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This
is a return to the county where he grew up and went to school for
Rik Mayall, star of The Young Ones, Blackadder, The Comic Strip,
The New Statesman and Bottom.
The former Kings School boy is playing the lead in Present Laughter,
a show Noel Coward originally wrote to showcase his own talents.
This charming comedy is set in the glamorous world of the theatre
during the Jazz Age, and is being billed as "a gloriously witty
portrait of the life that whirled round Noel Coward in his heyday."
Certainly there's a lot of Coward in the lead character, the charismatic
charmer Garry Essendine.
Flamboyantly vain and devastatingly handsome, Essendine is about
to set off on an extended tour of Africa, when he is visited by
practically everyone he knows including his ex-wife/manager, lawyer,
secretary, butler, business partners, an admiring young playwright
and a recent one night stand.
The stage is set for a battle of glittering egos, and Rik Mayall
is sure to make the most of Cowards wit and cutting lines.
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