Breakfast at Tiffany's
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 9, 2009
Closed Jan 9, 2010
Opened Sep 9, 2009
Closed Jan 9, 2010
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New York City, 1943. William 'Fred' Parsons, a young writer from Louisiana, meets Miss Holly Golightly, a charming, vivacious and utterly elusive good-time girl. Everyone falls in love with Holly, including William - but he is poor, and Holly needs rich. Will she marry Rusty, playboy millionaire? Or José, the future president of Brazil? As war rages in Europe, Holly begins to fall in love with William - and then her past catches up with her...
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Theatre Royal Haymarket
Haymarket
London, England
Opened 29 Dec 1720. Closed in 1737 (partly for attacking the government), re-opened 1747. The current theatre opened on 4th July 1821 and was designed by Nash. Society of London Theatre member.
Haymarket
London, England
Opened 29 Dec 1720. Closed in 1737 (partly for attacking the government), re-opened 1747. The current theatre opened on 4th July 1821 and was designed by Nash. Society of London Theatre member.
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It's one of cinema's most iconic images: Audrey Hepburn in her black dress and pearls, clutching a pastry and peering at the displays in the store windows at Tiffany's. It's also not one that's recreated in Sean Mathias' new stage production of
Breakfast at Tiffany's at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in the West End, because this is very specifically a staging of Truman Capote's novella, rather than its celluloid incarnation. So there's no Moon River and no cracker box ring; instead adaptor Samuel Adamson reinstates the original 1940s wartime setting and ditches the Hollywood ending creating a reworking that is frustratingly bitty and only intermittently poignant.
The focus of the work remain[...]