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...Gillian Freeman, who is quite literate, is a writer in the Austen tradition. With its gothic surprise ending and all, the plot of An Easter Egg Hunt could be summarized in a couple of lines. Yet Freeman does more than merely tell a story. She re-creates an era. The story is set in the famed English countryside, during World War I. The Great War intrudes on the narrative no more than it intrudes on the small girls' school in which the action transpires. Tightened food supplies and army cadets training nearby are the only evidence in the girls' little...
...Daughter Gillian (Ellen Parker) is a venomous feminist whose speeding on the liberation freeways has brought her an abortion and several emotional casualties. As for Younger Son Charles (Robert Burns), he is something of a militant prig, spared the worst of Bernard's blight through the harmonious offices of his wife-to-be's parents. This girl, Gwen (Jessica Drake), is mocked by the family for her lack of sophistication, but she is a judgment on them in the simplicity of her goodness...
Chase, Conti and Keith are one-man bands strutting their magnetic stuff; but it is in ensemble work that the London stage shines. In directing Nicholas Nickleby, Trevor Nunn juggled 43 actors in 138 speaking parts to create the propulsive bustle of Dickens' London. Now he and Choreographer Gillian Lynne have brought an informed anarchy to Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical settings for T.S. Eliot's exercise in whimsy and social satire, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. When it appeared in 1939, Practical Cats comprised 14 poems; Valerie Eliot, the poet's widow...
...Liberation Army fugitive; and her husband Bernard Shaw, 35, the San Francisco policeman who served as her bodyguard after her arrest in 1975 and during her subsequent trial for bank robbery that led to a 23-month prison term; a daughter, their first child; in Palo Alto, Calif. Name: Gillian Catherine Hearst-Shaw. Weight...
...Director Gillian Armstrong orchestrates Sybylla's antics with wit and imagination. Overcoming a dearth of dialogue, Armstrong injects each scene with life and imagination. Sybylla's first dinner with her grandmother is touchingly familiar to any viewer who has ever squirmed in a stiff and formal setting. As Sybylla fumbles with string beans and carrots--served on a silver platter by a butler--Armstrong accurately captures her nervousness and excitement in an intimate and endearing fashion...