Top British actor calls City Lit for help
Actor James McAvoy, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance in Atonement, recently worked with City Lit's speech therapy team as preparation for a new stage role. In Three Days of Rain, McAvoy's character has a stammer, and he called City Lit - which offers an award-winning programme of speech therapy courses - to ask for help in portraying this accurately. Rachel Everard of the speech therapy team said, "Having read through the script of the play, we agreed on the type of stammer that James's character had, and gave advice as he practised recreating it."
Reviewing the play for The Guardian, Michael Billington described McAvoy's performance as "one of the most convincing stammers I have ever heard on any stage", and Michael Coveney of What's on Stage felt that the stammer was "projected with great technical finesse."
Three Days of Rain by Richard Greenberg is on now at the Nimax Theatres on Shaftesbury Avenue. For tickets visit www.nimaxtheatres.com
Story added 18th March 2009
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