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John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge: 3. La Goulue

3. La Goulue

John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge

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How much longer can a greedy dancer stay on the stage? Stars Frances Barber.

How much longer can a greedy dancer stay on the stage? Toulouse Lautrec's characters come to life. Stars Frances Barber.

Dancer Louise's nickname of La Goulue is singularly appropriate - she's a glutton for food and life... 

Starring Frances Barber. 

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 the first of four plays about those entertainers, whose lives were as vivid as Lautrec's paint.

Louise Weber    ......    Frances Barber
La Mome Fromage    ......    Sylvestra Le Touzel 
Zidler    ......    Norman Jones
Annie    ......    Jo Kendall 
Joseph Oller    ......    Carlos Douglas
Henri Lassin    ......    Michael Graham Cox 
Mme Gillottes    ......    Margaret Courtenay
Gerard    ......    John Bull
Mme Grille    ......    Marcia King
Tremolada    ......    Donald Gee
Jeanne Faes    ......    Maria Miles
Jacques    ......    Joe Dunlop 
Guy Benoits    ......    Michael Kilgarriff
Nini    ......    Alice Arnold 

Music by Stephen Warbeck. 
Director: Jane Morgan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989.

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