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I saw the stage version in London years ago with Diana Rigg as Mrs Venables. Diana Rigg was a force of nature. This is a fantastic suggestion. I had been listening to Werner Herzog narration during spells of insomnia but I'll swop Werner out for Williams. I can't imagine a better way to be lulled to sleep (and experience traumatic dreams about a suffocating parent relationship, exactly the headspace I'm looking for to inform the writing I'm working on at the moment - thanks again!).

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That sounds like a peak experience. Who played the doctor?

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I had to google it to be sure - Mark Bazeley. Although 5 years earlier in another production it was Gerard Butler (Rachel Weisz played Catherine). In another Mummy/Tennessee Williams crossover i saw Brendan Frazer as Brick in London in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. I got seats so close to the stage i could catch his spittle. But forgot about any BF bodily fluids with Ned Beatty’s Big Daddy performance. He inhabited that shit bag of a character. Mesmerising!!!

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