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Nicholas Beckett Dr Rance Sergeant Match The play consists of two acts - though the action is continuous - and revolves around a Dr Prentice, a psychiatrist attempting to seduce his attractive prospective secretary, Geraldine Barclay. The play opens with the doctor examining Geraldine in a job interview, during which he persuades her to undress.


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The 68-year-old actress may play recluse QC Jocelyn Knight, but she appeared naked in a dozen films across her four-decade career - even if her son is still a bit embarrassed. In this controversial.


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David Tennant. Full Name: David Tennant.. He could, and did, to much acclaim, and followed it up with a much-praised performance as the page boy in What the Butler Saw at the Lyttelton. Then in 1996, when he was just 25, Tennant joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. His turn as Touchstone in As You Like It was praised as the most memorable.


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(1) See david tennant what the butler saw stock video clips Sort by Relevant RM 2F82PEE - Nicola Pagett (Mrs Prentice), David Tennant (Nicholas Beckett) in WHAT THE BUTLER SAW by Joe Orton at the Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre (NT), London SE1 02/03/1995 design: Mark Thompson lighting: Rick Fisher director: Phyllida Lloyd Page 1 of 1


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Samantha Bond, Omid Djalili and Tim McInnerny in What The Butler Saw, at the Vaudeville, London. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian Joe Orton What the Butler Saw - review.


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Directed by Lindsay Anderson, with designs by Jocelyn Herbert, lighting by Nick Chelton, music by Alan Price. Presented by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre as the final play in a three-play 'Joe Orton Festival'. London Revival 1979 Previewed 31 May 1979, Opened 1 June 1979, Closed 23 June 1979 at the Young Vic


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make love to her and, when he refuses, fires at him. Again a shot is heard and Nick enters, wounded in the shoulder. Geraldine, close to naked, enters and asserts that she is Geraldine; Rance.


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Record: Title: Venue: OpeningNight: 1539: What the Butler Saw: Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre: 2/24/1995


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Tennant played manic-depressive Campbell Bain, a role that he claims changed his life. "They needed someone who could believably act 19 and bonkers." He could, and did, to much acclaim, and followed it up with a much-praised performance as the page boy in What the Butler Saw at the Lyttelton.


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What the Butler Saw, Vaudeville Theatre, London The Sunshine Boys, Savoy Theatre, London Detroit, NT Cottesloe, London Joe Orton's famous sex farce is the latest addition to theatreland's retro craze.


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00:00, 13 Feb 2007 Updated 08:04, 3 Feb 2012 | Bookmark IT'S enough to make a Dalek blush as Doctor Who star David Tennant goes totally naked. The heroic Timelord strips down to his sonic.


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PHOTO OF THE DAY: David Tennant in What The Butler Saw - 1995


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Other articles where What the Butler Saw is discussed: Joe Orton: Sloane (1964), Loot (1965), and What the Butler Saw (produced posthumously, 1969), were outrageous and unconventional black comedies that scandalized audiences with their examination of moral corruption, violence, and sexual rapacity. Orton's writing was marked by epigrammatic wit and an incongruous polish, his characters.


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Today's Throwback Thursday post is a collection of photos of David Tennant as Nicholas Beckett in the 1995 Royal National Theatre production of Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw. David Tennant Photos Theatre Throwback Thursday What The Butler Saw


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What the Butler Saw is a farcical play by English playwright, John Kingsley "Joe" Orton. First performed in 1969, after Orton's death, the play is about a doctor in a psychiatric home who tries to seduce the woman he wants for a secretary, and their attempts to hide an incident during the interview. The play was Orton's attempt to.


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Twitter Related Entertaining Mr Sloane by Joe Orton, The Arts Theatre, 27 January 2001 After the hoo-ha of being grounded from the Royal Court revival of this play in 1975, Entertaining Mr Sloane had been on my bucket list (not that bucket lists had been invented back then) for more than a quarter of a century.