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Richards zweite Rolle am Birmingham Rep war des als Young Richie Baker in 'The Four Alice Bakers':

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The Four Alice Bakers

Richard Armitage's second appearance at the Birmingham Rep was in The Four Alice Bakers, in spring 1999.

‘The Four Alice Bakers’ explores the issue of human cloning and individuality, a current issue in the 1990s when the cloning of Dolly the sheep, whose birth was announced in 1997, generated discussion of its implications for other species.

Fay Weldon developed the play from her novel ‘The Cloning of Joanna May’ (1989), which had been adapted for television in 1992. She frames the narrative using the device of a television talk programme, the ‘Harry Harper Ethical Show’, in which a bio-geneticist, who, it is revealed, has cloned his three daughters from his wife’s mammary tissue, is interrogated by its host. The Guardian's theatre critic Michael Billington wrote: "Bill Alexander’s high energy production and Ruari Murchison’s design accurately reproduce the garish glitter of the TV talk show". [1]

Following previews, the play opened at Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 23rd February 1999 for a three-week run, with a cast including Michael Cashman as Harry Harper, David Hargreaves as Richie Baker and the eighteen-year old Sophia Myles making her theatre debut. It was directed by Bill Alexander. While the play itself gained few critical plaudits, its audiences were appreciative.

The story is told partly in flashback, and Richard Armitage played the role of Young Richie Baker, the younger incarnation (mid-twenties in one scene, thirties in a second) of Richie Baker, the bio-geneticist at the centre of the drama. Richard had to be ‘aged’ to play the slightly older role. In his first scene with Sophia Myles as the young Alice Baker, set in 1952, the couple dance a foxtrot to ‘Some Enchanted Evening’, he so badly that they give up and, in the course of three pages of dialogue, become engaged instead.


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Mehr Infos zur Spielzeit etc. hat die Fanseite 'Simply Sophia Myles' zusammengetragen:

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The Four Alice Bakers
Sophia Myles is playing Alice Baker

‘The Four Alice Bakers’ explores the issue of human cloning and individuality. The narrative is framed using the device of a television talk programme, the ‘Harry Harper Ethical Show’, in which a bio-geneticist, who, it is revealed, has cloned his three daughters from his wife’s mammary tissue, is interrogated by its host.

Main Details

Director: Bill Alexander
Script: Fay Weldon
Previews: 02/19/1999 12:00am
Opening Day: 02/23/1999 12:00am
Last Show: 03/13/1999 12:00am

Venue: Birmingham Repertory
Based Upon: Novel ‘The Cloning of Joanna May’ by Fay Weldon


Main Cast

Michael Cashman, David Hargreaves, Richard Armitage, Sophia Myles
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Several decades ago a geneticist’s blunder succeeded in cloning three daughters from his infertile wife. The truth is revealed during the course of a grotesque television talk show, Harry Harper’s Ethical Show, on to which the scientist and his family have been unwittingly lured. Harper, the smarmy TV host, puts Baker in the “hot seat” with demonic glee.

Baker, the rumpled scientist, worked with Francis Crick on DNA structures at Cambridge. That was when he fell in love with Alice, an ‘English Rose’. Of the three daughters, one may or may not have been abused by their father, one may or may not be a lesbian and one may or may not really be a man.

Ruari Murchison’s designs split the Birmingham Rep stage into three areas: the snazzy TV studio; the hospitality suite that’s suspended in the air like a capacious lift; and a circular tower that revolves to let us travel back in time to catch glimpses of the Baker’s family life. Centre stage, we have a high-backed leather swivel chair, where first Professor Baker, then his wife, then his eldest daughter, then his middle daughter, and then his youngest daughter, face Cashman’s questions.

Sophia's Role

Sophia played the young Alice Baker. In her first scene with the young Richie Barker, set in 1952, the couple dance a foxtrot to ‘Some Enchanted Evening’. Richie is so bad that they give up and soon after become engaged instead.


http://sophiamyles.org/tag/the-four-alice-bakers/

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Die Review im Ganzen:

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Send in the clones
Fay Weldon is playing with the genes again. But the experiment fails, says Michael Billington


Thu 25 Feb 1999 04.05 GMT
First published on Thu 25 Feb 1999 04.05 GMT


Fay Weldon is clearly not afraid of artificial reproduction. First she wrote a novel and TV series, The Cloning of Joanna May. Now, at Birmingham Rep, she has used cells from that to create a stage play, The Four Alice Bakers, in which the three daughters of a genetic scientist are revealed to be the product of an experiment.

The issue is serious, but setting it in a satirised piece of tabloid TV hardly seems the ideal place to debate it.

Weldon's host, Harry Harper, is a wound-up British Jerry Springer who uses his banana-sponsored TV show as a mix of ethical forum and public trial. His guest, Richie Baker, is a distinguished bio-geneticist who seems astonishingly innocent of the show's format.

On this occasion it gradually turns into a This Is Your Wife in which Alice Baker and her three fractious daughters are severally introduced - finally, it is revealed that, six years into a barren marriage, the master Baker used part of his wife's mammary tissue to create three cloned children.

Part of Weldon's aim is clearly to take the pejorative sting out of 'cloning', to suggest that it will be possible to create people who are psychologically various and even vehemently disputatious. Alice may be a traditional housewife but her three daughters are not exactly chips off the old block.

One is a lesbian feminist, another a careerist shrink and the third, by a scientific error, turns out to have a male psyche trapped in a female body. As in the old Danny Kaye song about triplets, they may look alike and talk alike but they still manage to hate each other very much.

The problem is that there are four Alice Bakers but at least three different plays going on, dealing with women's changing roles, TV populism and the ethics of cloning.

Weldon's chosen format also short-circuits debate. 'It's no better than Sunday Sport,'cries the beleaguered Baker, and big issues are reduced to a series of headline topics such as 'Galileo or Frankenstein?'

Even Weldon's vision of a brave new world in which there are manifold forms of reproduction and individualistic clones is undercut by an old-fashioned biological determinism - we deduce the youngest daughter is more male than female by her appetite for random violence.

But Bill Alexander's high-energy production and Ruari Murchison's design accurately reproduce the garish glitter of the TV talkshow. Michael Cashman as the volatile host forced to switch from Torquemada to banana-advertiser, David Hargreaves as the understandably troubled scientist and Diane Fletcher as his mysteriously unaware wife, all rise nobly to the script's hectic demands.

The three daughters even persuasively combine physical resemblance with temperamental difference. But in trying to mix issue-play, tissue-debate and media satire, Weldon has sent in rather too many clones.

Till March 13 (0121-236 4455).


https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/feb/25/features11.g21

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Das digitale Programmheft-Archiv vom Birmingham Rep weist leider für 1999 eine Lücke auf. Vielleicht sollte man dort später noch einmal nachschauen. :brief:

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