Time Out London
26 June 2006
EVITA
by Jane Edwardes
****

 

If the Argentinian footballers move with only half the dynamism of Argentinian actress Elena Roger, there's not much hope for England. Roger, who is over here to play her fellow countrywoman Eva Peron, is a tiny, dynamic dancer with a big smile and a voice that can be both strident and stunningly clear, especially when she sings 'I'd Be Surpisingly Good For You' to would-be President Peron.
Like Diana with whom she has so much in common, Eva still divides people today. On the one hand, she was loved by the people and scorned by the snobbish grandes dames of Buenos Aires; on the other, she was a ruthlessly ambitious actress who slept her way to the top and was well aware of her fascist husband's dealings.

 

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