Go back in time and visit vintage Hollywood as Grant Smeaton presents Bette/Cavett at Paisley Art Centre from 7.30pm. Read more …
It’s 1971.The dawn of the decade of trash. She’s the 63 year old Queen of Hollywood. He is the host who gets the guests his rivals can’t get near. Meet Bette Davis. Meet Dick Cavett.
Using verbatim text and studied with some hilariously nostalgic commercials, Bette/Cavett re-imagines one of the most candid TV meetings of all time – sliding down the rose-tinted sunglasses of our perceptions of “the old days” and challenging our tendency to glamorise the past.
Smeaton, a fan the 70s television era, says: ‘There was definitely an element of experimentation. Television is such a big part of all our cultural life and I think just taking a bit of TV and putting it on stage is quite an unusual kind of thing and I just wanted to know if it could work in that setting.’ The experiment certainly paid off with this unique theatre experience receiving great reviews and accolades such as the ‘Winner of the Bank of Scotland Herald Angel Award 2011.’
‘Coming up... Ms Davis on – drink and drugs in Hollywood... losing her virginity... and being attacked by wasps in Scotland... We’ll be right back!’Paisley Arts Centre, Paisley on Friday September 9, 2011. 7.30pm. Tickets: £10(£6).
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