Interview: Julian Fellowes on his stage version of Mary Poppins

Famous for lavish costume dramas, Fellowes has now revitalised Mary Poppins for the stage. He talks to Jane Clifton.

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29th September, 2012

Snobbery need not come exclusively in “the working class can kiss my arse” packaging, as Julian Fellowes, perhaps the world’s most commercially successful purveyor of the motif, can attest. Such is the harrumphing about the blockbuster status of his hit TV programme Downton Abbey that right-on commentators in the British press have questioned the writer/actor’s own “posh” status – an inverted form of looking down on someone if ever there was one. Fellowes’s aristocratic family tree has been dismissed as minor, refulgent with mere commoner ancestors, and for the fact ...

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