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The plot centers on Nina Leeds, the daughter of an Ivy League professor, who is devastated when her adored fiancé is killed in World War I, before they have a chance to consummate their passion. Ignoring the unconditional love of the novelist Charles Marsden, Nina embarks on a series of sordid affairs before determining to marry an amiable fool, Sam Evans. While Nina is pregnant with Sam's child, she learns a horrifying secret known only to Sam's mother: insanity runs in the Evans family and could be inherited by any child of Sam's. Realizing that a child is essential to her own and to Sam's happiness, Nina decides on a "scientific" solution. Spoiler [+]She will abort Sam's child and conceive a child with the physician Ned Darrell, letting Sam believe that it is his. The plan backfires when Nina and Ned's intimacy leads to their falling passionately in love. Twenty years later, Sam's "son" Gordon Evans is approaching manhood, with only Nina and Ned aware of the boy's true parentage. The meaning of the title is suggested by the aging Nina in a speech near the end of the play: "Our lives are strange dark interludes in the electrical display of God the Father!"
The plot centers on Nina Leeds, the daughter of an Ivy League professor, who is devastated when her adored fiancé is killed in World War I, before they have a chance to consummate their passion. Ignoring the unconditional love of the novelist Charles Marsden, Nina embarks on a series of sordid affairs before determining to marry an amiable fool, Sam Evans. While Nina is pregnant with Sam's child, she learns a horrifying secret known only to Sam's mother: insanity runs in the Evans family and could be inherited by any child of Sam's. Realizing that a child is essential to her own and to Sam's happiness, Nina decides on a "scientific" solution.
The meaning of the title is suggested by the aging Nina in a speech near the end of the play: "Our lives are strange dark interludes in the electrical display of God the Father!"
Kind of curious about this since so far James and AM have managed to pretty much take turns and not work at the same time (at least on location shoots), so don't know what this means in terms of his schedule for DoFP. ??
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biancaNYC wrote:do you think she ever gets jealous of ALL the kissing and sex scenes he does?? that would be a hard thing to deal with!
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Press Association - James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff met on TV show Shameless
Anne-Marie Duff has revealed why she agreed to return to Shameless for the final episode - she was a little tipsy.
The actress launched her TV career and met her partner James McAvoy on the Channel 4 drama, about the dysfunctional residents of the fictional Chatsworth estate.
Anne-Marie, 42, who left the show eight years ago, after the second series, said: "I made a drunken promise as I was leaving that I'd come back to play Fiona Gallagher for the very last episode - never thinking it would happen!
"It was extraordinary - same grim and grubby kitchen, same props... It was lovely."
Asked whether falling for James off-screen make the Shameless scenes awkward, the Parade's End actress said: "I'm not going into that! But yes, I've got a lot to be grateful for. It's extraordinary what happened to us all - we all thought this was probably a Titanic of a programme at the beginning. It's been such an incredible opportunity for us all."
Writer Paul Abbott recently called time on Shameless after 11 series of the hit TV drama.
Shameless, starring David Threlfall as Frank Gallagher, helped launch the careers of Maxine Peake as well as Anne-Marie and James, and spawned a US version of the show.
A number of former Shameless stars - including Jody Latham and Elliott Tittensor - also make a re-appearance in Manchester's fictional Chatsworth estate for the final episode.
http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/duff-made-drunken-promise-232210377.html
May 29 13 1:46 AM
After 11 series, 139 episodes and a decade of drama, debauchery and all-round anarchy, Channel 4 drama Shameless finally comes to an end tomorrow.
The comings and goings on the Chatsworth Estate, filmed in Wythenshawe, and the exploits of Frank Gallagher and his errant brood of children, have provided plenty of entertainment over the past 10 years.
And the explosive finale is promising to provide one last proper party for Frank, played by David Threlfall.
The show will see a host of star names return – including award-winning Anne Marie Duff as Frank’s daughter Fiona, and Elliott Tittensor and Jody Latham back as Frank’s sons Carl and Lip.
Anne Marie says: “The great surprise was that it felt as if everything had been kept in jelly nothing had changed!”
She has gone on to a stellar career in TV and film, as has the husband she met on Shameless, James McAvoy, but admits she couldn’t resist a return for the last episode.
She says: “I drunkenly agreed, I think with one of the producers years and years and years ago when I was leaving that I would come back and do the last episode of Shameless…I said, I will come back to the last episode – never imagining that it would actually happen!
“For me personally it felt like good karma to come back and be there at the very end. Shameless was all a good time in my life and I wouldn’t have done a lot of the work I’ve done since Shameless – I wouldn’t have worked on The Virgin Queen if I hadn’t done Shameless, so I have a lot to be thankful for.”
And Anne Marie reveals more of the Gallaghers had wanted to return – but were tied in to other projects.
She says: “A lot wanted to but were busy on other projects. Gerard Kearns was in a play at The Royal Exchange and Rebecca Ryan was in another play A Taste of Honey in Scotland.”
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Incidentally, her new play begins previews tonight.
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Duff has two films – both shot in London – coming out soon. Closed Circuit, which she describes as a topical thriller about terrorism and the law, and an adaptation of SJ Watson’s best-selling novel Before I Go To Sleep, with Nicole Kidman who, she says, is nice and normal, ‘a working mum like me’. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-2345053/Anne-Marie-Duff-Keira-Knightley-Nicole-Kidman-nearly-doing-Dita-Von-Teese.html#ixzz2X09RijEx
Duff has two films – both shot in London – coming out soon.
Closed Circuit, which she describes as a topical thriller about terrorism and the law, and an adaptation of SJ Watson’s best-selling novel Before I Go To Sleep, with Nicole Kidman who, she says, is nice and normal, ‘a working mum like me’.
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