8/11/2023 0 Comments Wild thyme southampton![]() Wenham is survived by a son, Simon, from her marriage to Finney, which ended in divorce in 1961. She appeared in favourites such as Porridge, Bergerac, Last of the Summer Wine, The Darling Buds of May and Inspector Morse, was Mrs Brittain in the 1979 miniseries Testament of Youth and had a small role in the first series of Downton Abbey (2010), as Mrs Bates, mother of Lord Grantham’s valet. Her feature films included An Inspector Calls (1954) and Make Me an Offer (1955), but Wenham was better known for her television roles. Wenham returned to the West End (the Queen’s) as Her Ladyship in Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser in 1980. ![]() She was unable to resist two even fatter parts at the Northcott theatre, Exeter, in 1978 – the title role in Hugh Whitemore’s Stevie, and Catherine of Braganza in Shaw’s Good King Charles’s Golden Days. Then she settled down for a long spell with the National Theatre, leaving in 1972 for the Young Vic to play Jocasta in Oedipus, but returning in 1974 to take over (from Jeanne Watts) as Dora Strang in Peter Shaffer’s Equus, at the Old Vic, continuing at the Albery until 1977. That year she married Albert Finney in Birmingham, where he was appearing in Henry V.Īfter a stint as Mrs Elvsted to Joan Greenwood’s Hedda Gabler (Arts and St Martin’s, 1964), Wenham returned to Bristol in 1968 for two major roles – as Sister Jeanne in a revival of John Whiting’s The Devils and then as Maggie in Iris Murdoch’s The Italian Girl, which transferred to the West End (at Wyndham’s). During the 1957 season at Stratford-upon-Avon, she was Celia in As You Like It, Calphurnia in Julius Caesar and Iris in The Tempest. When the company returned to the bomb-damaged Old Vic, she offered a small, fiery and compact Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 1951 and in 1953 made “a wise and merry” Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice.įollowing a detour to the lyric stage with The Duenna, Wild Thyme and Grab Me a Gondola, it was back to straight Shakespeare. Her successes continued in 1950 as a dirty and décolleté Pimple, one of Hogarth’s gin addicts, in She Stoops to Conquer as a lively, cherry-lipped and bedazzled Katya in A Month in the Country and as Marianne in Molière’s The Miser. Wenham in 1949 rejoined the Old Vic at the New theatre in London. WILD THYME - 419 Photos & 355 Reviews - 705 12th Street, New Westminster, BC, Canada - Yelp Delivery & Pickup Options - 355 reviews of Wild Thyme 'We had a beautiful experience Such a nice little intimate restaurant. As the Times put it: “Even the potion scene she nearly brings off by playing much of it down, as if its terrors were almost too great for her to put into words.” In Sheridan’s The Rivals, her “piquant and tiny” Lucy won further praise and after a Vera in Turgenev’s A Month in the Country – “a touching picture of young girlhood shattered in the very act of emerging into womanhood” – in Romeo and Juliet she showed a “wistful, affecting quality which accentuated Juliet’s child-like vulnerability”. ![]() In two seasons at Bristol, her singing voice caught attention as Aladdin, as Sherah in James Bridie’s Tobias and the Angel and as Cinderella, suggesting “the wistfulness and helplessness of the character”. Within a few weeks she was praised for the finest Desdemona (to William Devlin’s Othello) for 17 years and as Ophelia to Robert Eddison’s Hamlet, she transferred to the St James’s theatre in London in 1948. That year she also appeared in a film of the 1943 stage success Pink String and Sealing Wax.Īfter visiting New York with the Old Vic company, she returned to London as Gladys in Thornton Wilder’s history of the world in comic strip, The Skin of Our Teeth (1946), but realised that rep training was more important than the West End, so she joined the Bristol Old Vic. ![]() She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London before making her West End debut in 1945 in the great Old Vic revival of Henry IV Part I at the New theatre, with Ralph Richardson as Falstaff. The daughter of Dorothy (nee Wenham) and Arthur Figgins, she was born in Southampton and adopted her mother’s maiden name for the theatre. If this data is unavailable or inaccurate and you own or represent this business, click here for more information on how you may be able to correct it.Jane Wenham leaning out of a train carriage as she and the rest of the Old Vic theatre company prepared to tour South Africa in 1952. VIEW ADDITIONAL DATA Select from over 115 networks below to view available data about this business. ![]()
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