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BEN BENISON
Nationality: British
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Cinderella - the Real True Story Jack Lear Pinocchio Wigan PierroCinderella - the Real True Story
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Shaw, London 1987
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Pantomime
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Top of PageJack Lear
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focuses on the fundemental question: what are you supposed to do with old folk. Jack Lear is a tetchy old trawlerman bitter at never having been blessed with male offspring. Instead he has brought up his children Morgana, Freda and Victoria to be men-daughters , handy with a filleting knife and unafraid to speak their minds. Now it's up to them to decide who takes in the old salt and his posse of drunken friends. Benison trims his source as efficiently as gutting a haddock, discarding the subplot and emphaŽsising the sexual competition of the two elder sisŽters for the attention of edmund, a weasily soliciŽtor with powers of attorney over the old man's posŽsessions.
- alfred Hickling, Guardian
- alfred Hickling, Guardian
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Original Playwright - Shakespeare
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adaptation
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Top of PagePinocchio
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From the Story By Carlo Collodi
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Shaw, London 1992
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Top of PageWigan Pierro
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London International Mime Festival. The first Festival took place at The Cockpit Theatre and Arts Centre, London NW8, in January 1977. In that year the event was called The Cockpit Festival of Mime and Visual Theatre. It is now the longest running festival of its kind in the world. With the exceptions of 1983 and 1986, the Festival has taken place each year, featuring, in addition to workshops, films, debates and special events, performances by the following artists and companies.
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London International Mime Festival 1979
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