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...theater, which as the curtain rises is pregnant with possibility, but by the end is filled with emptiness, as the seats are vacated and the actors slip off-stage. It is also a joy to watch so many women on stage obviously relishing an ensemble work. Diana Rigg's stately performance as Huma - and her excerpts as Blanche DuBois - anchors one of the largest casts at the Old Vic since Kevin Spacey took over as artistic director in 2003. "The play is an experiment, and I'm very lucky to be in it," Rigg told TIME...
...adaptation ends at a funeral - itself a ritualistic form of theater. But instead of an affirmation ("Let's turn this funeral into a fiesta," Agrado pleads) we get a dirge. Unlike the film, which offers an uplifting coda, the play closes with Rigg's melodramatic reading of a mother's threnody for a dead son from Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding, which features only briefly in the film. It recounts the moment she finds his carcass: "I licked the blood because it was my blood," she says...
...also knew that we had been through the oddest of codes, and that few ever ended this happily. I went back to finish evening rounds and fell asleep thinking - about an old Avengers' episode in which Diana Rigg's black leather gloves keep her from being affected by a transcutaneous hallucinogen that bad guys have put on children's toys. And how lucky I was to be sleeping that night, in this great, big hospital...
Long before Alias' Jennifer Garner traveled the world's nightclubs undercover and barely covered, Diana Rigg donned the catsuit of justice as superhot, supercool British spook Emma Peel. The plots seem frothy in retrospect--in one, an alien artichoke threatens mankind. But the quick-witted, flirty interplay between Mrs. Peel and bowler-hatted John Steed (Patrick Macnee) never gets old. This massive set collects all 51 Peel episodes plus three rare Avengers, a making-of film and more. Crisply written and sophisticated, it's a stylish time capsule of the mid-'60s apex of British mod-era style...
...main story line is sturdily intact, Dickens' cry of outrage at society's injustice is heard loud and clear, and some memorable characters are brought to glorious life. Rigg, as Lady Dedlock, is a model of aristocratic propriety starting to crack as her world threatens to unravel. Suzanne Burden as the heroine, Esther Summerson, is just as sweet, sensible and faintly dull as Dickens portrayed her. Den-holm Elliott, as Esther's kindly guardian John Jarndyce, invests a quiet role with remarkable compassion and grace...