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YOU wouldn't believe the random items and emails that arrive on the desk of an entertainment editor. In Spotlight on... I'll highlight the ones that might otherwise slip under the radar, have some cult value or simply just be worth mentioning again. This week from divas to robots... read on
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CHEWING THE SCENERY/CLIMBING THE CURTAIN BY DAVINA ELLIOTT Author Davina Elliott has worked on more than 80 theatre productions, in roles as diverse as dresser, producer, but never actor. Nevertheless, her insight into backstage shenanigans is second to none, making her theatrical novels wonderfully authenic, hilarious and knowing.
Climbing The Curtain, her second novel, is a sequel to the award-winning Chewing The Scenery, in which she introduced readers to Judith Gold. In that tale, we find her legendary leading lady at loggerheads with an avant-garde theatre director on a West End production of Blithe Spirit. The show quickly becomes a theatrical nightmare, complete with unexploded bombs and air raid sirens in what is supposed to be a 1930s drawing room comedy.
In Climbing The Curtain, Judith Gold has chosen her latest venture, a stage adaptation of the classic film All About Eve. Joined again by her leading man,...
