#The World of Paul Slickey

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Actress Adrienne Corri was born on November 13th in Glasgow.

Corri is one of those actors you wont recognise by he name, but one look at her and you will go….“oh aye!!”

Born Adrienne Riccoboni, the daughter of Olive Smethurst and an Italian father Luigi Riccoboni, Luigi ran the Crown Hotel, Callander in the 30’s, that’s the braw big white building in the middle of the High Street as you drive through.

Brought up in Edinburgh, she left home as a teenager and performed with travelling theatre groups before attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She took the name Corri after an Italian ancestor.

During her early career, Picturegoer magazine described Adrienne Corri as having “no nice little-girl-next-door nonsense about her”. Tales abounded of tantrums during rehearsals, and audiences, too, sometimes got the rough edge of her tongue. As she took her place for the curtain call among the cast of a critically-panned West End production of John Osborne’s The World of Paul Slickey, in 1959, she responded, in typical Scottish style, to audience booing by raising two fingers and shouting: “Go fuck yourselves.”

I could reel off a load of her films that she starred in but one particular scene in one particular film is how a lot of you will remember her for. In a shocking scene she played Mrs. Alexander, Patrick Magee’s wife in A Clockwork Orange. After the Kubrik film she starred in a series of 70’s horror films, Corri’s voluptuous figure and flaming red hair made her a favourite with directors.

After completing  A Clockwork Orange  Corri kept in touch with Kubrick, who complained to her about the problem he had of losing socks whenever he did the washing, so for Christmas she gave him a pair of bright red socks, a humorous reference to her scene in "Orange", where after Alex had finished snipping off her red pajama suit, she was naked except for a pair of red socks.

Corri also appeared on the small screen, most notable was in Dr Who as Mena in the four parter The Leisure Hive with my fave Doctor, when I was a bairn, Tom Bake, and in Lovejoy episodes, Highland Fling where the main characters journey to Scotland with Jane to help her friend, played by Corri, who needs him to help her raise money to maintain her expensive estate.

Adrienne Corri passed away on March 13th 2016 aged 84.

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Look Back in Anger and Other Plays by John Osborne - A Review

Look Back in Anger and Other Plays is the first volume of John Osborne’s collected plays, which includes Look Back in Anger, Epitaph for George Dillon, The World of Paul Slickey, and Déjàvu.

Welcome to the review of one of my craziest reads of last year!

My Rating: 3/5Genre: PlayPages: 389 (Paperback)Publisher: Faber & FaberDate of Publication of the edition: 31 December 1993Original Date of…

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#British Literature #Déjàvu #Drama #Epitaph for George Dillon #John Osborne #Look Back in Anger #Look Back in Anger and Other Plays #Play #Sahitya Akademi Library #Shaina Reviews #The World of Paul Slickey #Book Review #Faber and Faber #Shainas Musings

[scotianostra]

Actress Adrienne Corri was born on November 13th in Glasgow.

Corri is one of those actors you wont recognise by he name, but one look at her and you will go...."oh aye!!"

Born Adrienne Riccoboni, the daughter of Olive Smethurst and an Italian father Luigi Riccoboni, Luigi ran the Crown Hotel, Callander in the 30's, that's the braw big white building in the middle of the High Street as you drive through.

Brought up in Edinburgh, she left home as a teenager and performed with travelling theatre groups before attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She took the name Corri after an Italian ancestor.

During her early career, Picturegoer magazine described Adrienne Corri as having “no nice little-girl-next-door nonsense about her”. Tales abounded of tantrums during rehearsals, and audiences, too, sometimes got the rough edge of her tongue. As she took her place for the curtain call among the cast of a critically-panned West End production of John Osborne’s The World of Paul Slickey, in 1959, she responded, in typical Scottish style, to audience booing by raising two fingers and shouting: “Go f--- yourselves.”

I could reel off a load of her films that she starred in but one particular scene in one particular film is how a lot of you will remember her for. In a shocking scene she played Mrs. Alexander, Patrick Magee's wife in A Clockwork Orange. After the Kubrik film she starred in a series of 70's horror films, Corri’s voluptuous figure and flaming red hair made her a favourite with directors.

Corri also appeared on the small screen, most notable was in Dr Who as Mena in the four parter The Leisure Hive with my fave Doctor, when I was a bairn, Tom Bake, and in Lovejoy episodes, Highland Fling where the main characters journey to Scotland with Jane to help her friend, played by Corri, who needs him to help her raise money to maintain her expensive estate.

Adrienne Corri passed away on March 13th 2016 aged 84.

#Scotland #scottish #Actress

[scotianostra]

Actress Adrienne Corri was born on November 13th in Glasgow.

Corri is one of those actors you wont recognise by he name, but one look at her and you will go...."oh aye!!"

Born Adrienne Riccoboni, the daughter of Olive Smethurst and an Italian father Luigi Riccoboni, Luigi ran the Crown Hotel, Callander in the 30's, that's the braw big white building in the middle of the High Street as you drive through.

Brought up in Edinburgh, she left home as a teenager and performed with travelling theatre groups before attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She took the name Corri after an Italian ancestor.

During her early career, Picturegoer magazine described Adrienne Corri as having “no nice little-girl-next-door nonsense about her”. Tales abounded of tantrums during rehearsals, and audiences, too, sometimes got the rough edge of her tongue. As she took her place for the curtain call among the cast of a critically-panned West End production of John Osborne’s The World of Paul Slickey, in 1959, she responded to audience booing by raising two fingers and shouting: “Go f--- yourselves.”

I could reel off a load of her films that she starred in but one particular scene in one particular film is how a lot of you will remember her for. In a shocking scene she played Mrs. Alexander, Patrick Magee's wife in A Clockwork Orange. After the Kubrik film she starred in a series of 70's horror films, Corri’s voluptuous figure and flaming red hair made her a favourite with directors.

Corri also appeared on the small screen, most notable was in Dr Who as Mena in the four parter The Leisure Hive with my fave Doctor, when I was a bairn, Tom Bake, and in Lovejoy episodes, Highland Fling where the main characters journey to Scotland with Jane to help her friend, played by Corri, who needs him to help her raise money to maintain her expensive estate.

Adrienne Corri passed away on March 13th 2016 aged 84.

#Scotland #scottish