![]() It was a massive sell-out hit at Hampstead in 2017, and Terry’s fascinating play and Robert Lindsay’s brilliant performance are still talked about by our audiences. “ It’s wonderful that Prism is having this further life. Greg Ripley-Duggan, Hampstead Theatre Executive Producer said: His quicksilver performance lights up the stage.’ ‘ Robert Lindsay is in glorious, compelling form as the charmer who believed ‘life is temporary, film is forever’. He evokes the casual charm that made Cardiff magnetic to the women he worked with as well as the professional obsessiveness that led him to experiment with prisms and seek to reproduce the textures of a Vermeer or Renoir on screen’ ‘ a funny and absorbing play… who needs the movies when you’ve got theatre?’ ‘ Robert Lindsay excels in his portrayal of this passionate, boozy character, who was famous for making his female stars look stunning on screen. Johnson ingeniously weaves Cardiff’s different realities into an engaging piece of theatre… Not just for movie buffs.’ His visit to the Theatre Royal Nottingham with Prism in October 2019 will mark a rare return to the stage in his home city. īorn in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, Robert Lindsay grew up in the local area, attending Gladstone Boys’ School and then enrolling in the drama department of Clarendon College in Nottingham. Television credits include My Family and Genius. ĭouble Olivier Award winner Robert Lindsay ’s theatre credits include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (West End) and The Entertainer (Old Vic Theatre). Multi award winning Terry Johnson ’s many hits include Hysteria, La Cage aux Folles, Mrs Henderson Presents and Dead Funny. His days of hard work – and play – on some of the most famous film sets in the world are now long behind him, as are his secret liaisons with some of the most famous women in the world… Surrounded by memorabilia from a lifetime of ‘painting with light’, the writing of an autobiography should be an easy matter – were it not that Jack would now rather live in the past than remember it… Jack Cardiff has retired to the sleepy village of Denham, Buckinghamshire. ‘ The first time I held a prism and turned it to the light it did what the Impressionists struggled a lifetime to do it embraced the light, split the light it seemed to understand the very secret of light.’ Theatre Royal Nottingham 21 – 26 October 2019įollowing a sell-out run at London’s Hampstead Theatre, Terry Johnson ’s Prism returns to the stage as part of a national tour with the ‘magnetic’ ( The Guardian ), ‘perfect’ ( The Times ) and ‘glorious’ ( Mail on Sunday ) Robert Lindsay reprising his role as the double Oscar-winning cinematic master Jack Cardiff, ‘the man who made women look beautiful’ ( Vanity Fair ).
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