Posters of the Moulin Rouge

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John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge

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Only a shadow on a poster, what is Valentin in real life? Stars Stephen Thorne.

Only a shadow on a poster, what is Valentin in real life? Toulouse Lautrec's characters come to life. Stars Stephen Thorne.

Only a shadow on a poster - what is Valentin Renaudin in real life? 

Starring Stephen Thorne.  

When the Moulin Rouge cabaret opened in Montmartre, Paris in 1889, Toulouse-Lautrec was commissioned to paint a series of posters. A performer's career was made if they secured an appearance. 

John Peacock brings Toulouse Lautrec's poster characters to life, in four plays about those entertainers whose lives were as vivid as Lautrec's paint.

Valentin Renaudin    ......    Stephen Thorne  
Celine Renaudin    ......    Margaretta Scott
Louise Weber    ......    Frances Barber
La Mome Fromage    ......    Sylvestra Le Touzel 
Alice Goujon    ......    Anna Cropper 
Zidler    ......    Norman Jones
Monsieur Goujon    ......    Michael Graham Cox 
Theo Renaudin    ......    Geoffrey Whitehead  
Georges Tabards    ......    David Goudge  
Joseph Oller    ......    Carlos Douglas
Adele    ......    Sue Broomfield
Gerard    ......    John Bull
Michel Renaudin    ......    Brian Miller 
Annie    ......    Jo Kendall 
Shop Assistant    ......    Marcia King
Nini    ......    Alice Arnold 


Music by Stephen Warbeck. 
Director: Jane Morgan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1989.

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