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The Mission Impossible actress, 41, exuded glamour in a black caped gown as she attended the annual 67th Evening Standard Theatre Awards on Sunday.
Both Irish actors are nominated in the Best Actor category for their work on the West End.
Pygmalion – the original movie Speaking of classics, I saw an excellent production of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion at the Old Vic last week starring Bertie Carvel as Higgins and the ubiquitous Patsy Ferran as Eliza. Naturally, since it’s still running, it’s not yet on video or film but this is, the original English language movie version (there was a previous
Bertie Carvel is unrecognisable from his last appearance at the Old Vic when he not only looked like Donald Trump in The 47th, he captured every nuance of speech, glance and gesture of the former president. He does, though, play a character with an equally monstrous ego, a man of utter self-absorption and fired with a passion for his own self-aggrandisement. This is a Henry Higgins with more than a touch of Aspergers – he's a tweedy version of Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock and his Watson is Michael Gould's charmingly avuncular Colonel Pickering. Shaw's 1913 play Pygmali...
MANUEL HARLANPatsy Ferran and Bertie Carvel in PygmalionIt starts with a bang — a thunderclap that sends the figures on stage scurrying through the pillars. Tha