Post by Elizabeth on Mar 27, 2009 20:35:07 GMT
Nights at the Circus
Role: Fevvers
Toured: 2005
Director: Tom Morris and Emma Rice
Company: KneeHigh Productions
Synopsis: It's 1899 and all of Europe is agape at the arrival of the new century! The world crackles with possibilities – and its people dance to the irresistible rhythms of money, sex, love and freedom. Swinging above them all is a showbiz sensation; a fierce, vulgar, pant-droppingly sexy trapeze artist called Fevvers. The story charts her unlikely love affair with Walser, a world-weary journalist on a mission to expose her as a fake.
Reviews:
"It's pointless to pretend that the actress Natalia Tena, 21 and radiant, is a dead ringer for Fevvers, who is huge and battered, with a face 'as broad and oval as a meat dish'. Tena was, says Emma Rice, exactly who she wasn't looking for. But fat actresses have been 'drummed out of the business years ago', and Tena has the gusto and frankness to tap straight into the character. The greed, too: when Rice saw her shovelling pavlova into her mouth during a break, she got her to do the same on stage. She's not allowed centre stage enough, but she is heart-stopping in the opening moments - spangled, swinging on a trapeze, singing 'I'm only a bird in a gilded cage', first plaintively, and then as a belting challenge - and she's rousing at the close, when she and Gisli Orn Gardarsson, the Icelandic actor (and circus-trained international gymnast) twirl side by side on bungee trapezes in an aerial romance."- The Observer
"Natalia Tena, a Lyric fixture after Brontë and Gone to Earth but also appearing with Dame Judi Dench in Mrs Henderson Presents, gives her all as Fevvers. She confidently combines circus skills on trapeze and ropes, song, music and acting and, by the end, is literally breathless." -The British Theatre Guide
Role: Fevvers
Toured: 2005
Director: Tom Morris and Emma Rice
Company: KneeHigh Productions
Synopsis: It's 1899 and all of Europe is agape at the arrival of the new century! The world crackles with possibilities – and its people dance to the irresistible rhythms of money, sex, love and freedom. Swinging above them all is a showbiz sensation; a fierce, vulgar, pant-droppingly sexy trapeze artist called Fevvers. The story charts her unlikely love affair with Walser, a world-weary journalist on a mission to expose her as a fake.
Reviews:
"It's pointless to pretend that the actress Natalia Tena, 21 and radiant, is a dead ringer for Fevvers, who is huge and battered, with a face 'as broad and oval as a meat dish'. Tena was, says Emma Rice, exactly who she wasn't looking for. But fat actresses have been 'drummed out of the business years ago', and Tena has the gusto and frankness to tap straight into the character. The greed, too: when Rice saw her shovelling pavlova into her mouth during a break, she got her to do the same on stage. She's not allowed centre stage enough, but she is heart-stopping in the opening moments - spangled, swinging on a trapeze, singing 'I'm only a bird in a gilded cage', first plaintively, and then as a belting challenge - and she's rousing at the close, when she and Gisli Orn Gardarsson, the Icelandic actor (and circus-trained international gymnast) twirl side by side on bungee trapezes in an aerial romance."- The Observer
"Natalia Tena, a Lyric fixture after Brontë and Gone to Earth but also appearing with Dame Judi Dench in Mrs Henderson Presents, gives her all as Fevvers. She confidently combines circus skills on trapeze and ropes, song, music and acting and, by the end, is literally breathless." -The British Theatre Guide
