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Melanie's just mad about this farce
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| Actress Melane Jessop, who is appearing in What the Butler Saw at Salisbury Playhouse. DB3960P1 |
ACTRESS Melanie Jessop cannot wait for tonight's opening of Joe Orton's fast and furiously paced play, What the Butler Saw, because during the weeks of rehearsal, there was just one thing missing.
"The final cast member in a farce is always the audience," she muses, promising that Philip Wilson's production will be "fast and furious."
Melanie returns to the main house at Salisbury Playhouse after an absence of 14 years when she played Amanda in Private Lives and Estella in Great Expectations.
"It is lovely to be back here and lovely to be working on a bonkers play, which takes farce to the absolute limits."
Melanie plays Mrs Prentice and the play is set in the examining room of Dr Prentice, whose interest in his female patients is far from clinical.
Melanie is also relieved to be working with a smaller cast after spending a year with the Royal Shakespeare Company, at Stratford and in the West End. She found the experience exhausting, after going from understudy to taking leading roles for seven weeks in Trevor Nunn's productions of King Lear and The Seagull, when Frances Barber had to undergo a knee operation.
Until Saturday, May 24.
10:27am Thursday 1st May 2008
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