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There is no point pretending that the play itself will be the main attraction to lots of the audience at London's Comedy Theatre when its new show officially opens next week.

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Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley makes her West End debut in a playwright Martin Crimp's new version of Moliere's The Misanthrope , beginning performances at the Comedy Theatre Dec.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 11:51 p.m. Vote 0 Votes Based on British journalist Lynn Barber's personal memoir, "An Education" presents a realistic and poignant portrayal of a schoolgirl's unconventional encounter with first love.

Keira's first West End role is a smart choice. So why does she feel queasy about it? The professional stage debut of Keira Knightley has been astutely packaged.

WITHIN half an hour of starting our walk from East Lodge hotel in the picturesque village of Rowsley we arrived at our first tea shop break stop.

Apparently eager for a change of pace, Nicole Kidman is to get a change of sex into the bargain with a part in the film version of David Ebershoff's novel The Danish Girl.

Splitting hairs: From left, Christiana Molldrem, James Uva and Daniel Rowlands in Appleseed's Dr.

Q With Mamma Mia!, The Duchess and now An Education, you've proved you can act, sing, dance and wear tight period trousers.

Napoleon, who was part of The Devil's Horsemen stunt team. A 27-year-old mule who appeared in the movie, "The Duchess", starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes, has been killed in a car crash.

Actress Keira Knightley will portray Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle in the forthcoming film remake of the classic 1956 Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady .

Well it looks like Keira Knightley really has given up on contemporary films. The 24-year-old actress is reportedly going to star in My Fair Lady , the latest adaptation from English director Joe Wright , whose other project, Indian Summer , fell apart just last week.

The Duchess Theatre presents Endgame by Samuel Beckett . In Beckett's one act play the aged and blind Hamm and his servant Clov co-exist in a mutually dependent and fractious relationship, with only Hamm's parents, Nell and Nagg, legless from a biking accident, for company.

WITH its gleaming Baroque architecture and finely- manicured grounds, Chatsworth House would more likely be associated with a refined costume drama than a blood-curdling Hollywood horror movie.

A 17-year-old school girl in an English village in the 1960s, whose education is focused on preparing her for an admissions interview at Oxford, has desires of her own, which are summed up by the declaration that "At university I'm going to read what I want and wear black." The action of her life starts when one stormy day after a Youth Orchestra ...

Keira Knightley arrives at the world premiere of 'The Duchess' at the Odeon cinema, Leicester Square on September 3, 2008 in London, England.

Oscar-nominated star to perform in MoliA re's The Misanthrope alongside Damian Lewis and Tara Fitzgerald Press Association guardian.co.uk , Friday 9 October 2009 11.57 BST Treading the boards for the first time ... Keira Knightley.

For all of the corseting that aristocratic ladies of the Eighteenth Century wore , one might imagine that sexual naughtiness would have been well nigh impossible.A Those who have encountered the writings of the Marquis de Sade or Pierre de Laclos ' Les Liaisons Dangereuses know better, of course, as do those who saw the recent Keira Knightly film ...

Here are some films I've watched in recent weeks. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" OK, I've never read Oscar Wilde's classic novel.

THE popular film nights at Etton Village Hall start again on Friday October 2, with the film The Duchess .