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If 17th-century Londoner Nell Gwynn is remembered today, it’s usually for the wrong reasons — as an orange seller who became mistress to England’s King Charles II.
A RIGHT Royal romp with juicy oranges is coming to Malvern Theatres, and it's all down to Nell Gwynn.
“Nell Gwynn,” the stylistic hodgepodge of an offering at Folger Theatre, represents what you might call the comedy of hope — the hope being that the next scene will be funnier than the one ...
A brief history of Nell Gwynne. BBC Hereford and Worcester Hylton Road Worcester Worcestershire WR2 5WW (+44) 01905 337230 [email protected] [email protected] ...
‘Nell Gwynn’: Theater Review Gugu Mbatha-Raw returns to the London stage after her film successes to play the original tart with heart, the orange-seller-turned-royal mistress, at the Globe.
And if you strip away the 17th century frippery, the fancy wigs, the oranges and the British accents, it’s also exactly the plot of “Nell Gwynn,” the limited if intermittently amusing new ...
Gemma Arterton will return to the West End to star in the transfer of Jessica Swale's Nell Gwynn , about the 17th century actress and royal mistress, at the Apollo Theatre.
The play is therefore set in "Restoration" England. We meet " Nell Gwynn " as she is walking down the center aisle of the theater during a performance where she hawks oranges to patrons.
But is this rowdy Restoration romp deserving of the lavish praise it has already garnered? The story of Nell, which begins in the 1660s once the anti-theatrical Puritans have been sent packing, is ...
Her problematic strategy is apparent in the opening minutes, as mouthy Nell, selling oranges in what we’re asked to believe is the theater in which we’re all sitting and where a play has just ...
Nell Gwynne (or Gwyn or Gwynn) certainly knew how to live life to the full, packing a career as an orange seller, an actress and a royal mistress into her 37 years. Hereford has always laid claim ...