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Beauty. Nudity. Ambition . The rise and fall of Fame.

Staged at , a multi-media play exploring the relationship between Lord Leighton, PRA, and his model, , inspiration www.leightonhouse.co.uk for his masterpiece Flaming June . Not Suitable for under 14s Lord Leighton PalimpsestPalimpsest Palimpsest The 1830-1896 PRESENTS Palimpsest PalimpsesPatlimpsest Muse Who Was Dorothy Dene? (Born Ada Alice Pullan) 1859- 1899; Actress? Model? Frederic Leighton Muse? was made president Protege? of The Royal Academy Consort? and knighted in

Mexico, Collection Pérez Simón ©Studio Sébert Photographes Confidante? 1878; the year before he met 20 year old “I was late for Miss Dorothy Dene’s Ada Pullan. Juliet. This I greatly regretted. Miss Dene was a young actress who New letters discovered had not the painted show of beauty

Henry van der Weyde, Dorothy Dene (Ada Alice Pullen), 1880s ©National Portrait Gallery Dorothy Dene (Ada Alice Pullen), 1880s ©National Portrait Henry van der Weyde, in 2015 suggest that this poor girl from which was so common on the stage, New Cross, who and so useless, but that honest changed her name reality of it which is so useful to Dorothy Dene and to painters. Her speech showed rose to be one of the unusual signs of thoughtful most feted actress/ calculation. She had a plastic models of the late grace, she took herself and her , profession seriously, and her Was Dorothy the model was ultimately appearances in leading roles were for Shaw’s Pygmalion? Leighton’s partner. not unpopular. The mystery is, what became of her? Did the studio “ ...the story of Eliza Doolittle, instantly reclaim its adored though called a romance because the transfiguration it records model? Did she fall into the abyss seems exceedingly improbable, of opulent matrimony? Did she is probable enough. Such demand impossible terms? Or were Follow Ada Alice Pullan transfigurations have been the managers obdurate in their @DorothyDene1 on Twitter. achieved by hundreds of resolutely belief that there is only one safe ambitious young women...I draw my sort of actress- the woman who is Explore the evidence in the characters from life, as I see them...” all susceptibility and no brains?” form of an online scrap box , George Bernard Shaw, at www.the-muse.co.uk Preface to Pygmalion 1912 Our Theatre in the Nineties, 1932 PalimpsestPalimpsest Palimpsest The PRESENTS Palimpsest PalimpsesPatlimpsest Muse Beauty. Nudity. Ambition. The rise and fall of Fame.

Following a sell-out run of ‘The Muse’ at Leighton House Museum in 2015, Palimpsest return with a strictly limited run for March 2017. Exploring the relationship between Lord Leighton and his model, muse and confidante, Dorothy Dene, The Muse fuses theatre, film and online elements at www.the-muse.co.uk.

Leighton House Museum is the former Reviewed as ‘Beautiful and studio house of Frederic Leighton Haunting’ and ‘Much more than a (1830-1896). The centrepiece is the mere play’ by The British Theatre extraordinary Arab Hall, featuring Guide, the evening begins with a 16th and 17th Islamic tiles, mosaic drinks soirée ranging through floors and a calming fountain. the glorious salons of Leighton’s Also Leighton’s painting studio, with palace of art and culminates its large north-facing window,where in the artist’s studio where he created the iconic Flaming June. Dorothy posed nude in 1886. 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 27th, 29th The play features an original and 30th March 2017 piano score performed by Doors at 7:15pm for drinks soiree composer John Chambers. Play begins at 7:45pm

The ticket price includes the Due to the nature of the play please note opportunity to view Flaming that late comers will not be admitted. June, after the performance. Not suitable for under 14 yr olds.

Leighton House Museum 12 Rd , , W14 8LZ www.leightonhouse.co.uk www.palimpsest.co