Posters of the Moulin Rouge

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John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge: 4. Jane Avril

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The crazy dancer uses people, but reaps the consequences.

The crazy dancer uses people, but reaps the consequences. Toulouse Lautrec's characters come to life. Stars Angela Pleasance.

They called her Crazy Jane because of the way she danced, but it was not an affectionate nickname. Jane Avril used people all her life and reaped the consequences...  

Starring Angela Pleasence.

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.

Jane Avril    ......    Angela Pleasence
Gazelle    ......    Vivian Pickles
Andre Vaubert    ......    Jack Galloway 
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec     ......    Clive Merrison 
Arsene Ondet    ......    David King  
Charles Zidler    ......    Norman Jones  
Annine    ......    Jo Kendall  
Chairman    ......    John Bull
Alain Marais    ......    Brian Miller 
Madeleine    ......    Anne Carroll
Cleaner    ......    Tara Dominic
Matron    ......    Anna Cropper
Maxine    ......    Valerie Sarruf 
Claire Cortin    ......    Alice Arnold 
Gazelle (at 17)    ......    Elizabeth Mansfield

Music by Stephen Warbeck. 
Director: Jane Morgan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1989.

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