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===Stage appearances=== In 1973 Bron appeared in the West End musical ''[[The Card (musical)|The Card]]''. Throughout the 1980s she appeared in [[Amnesty International]]'s ''[[The Secret Policeman's Ball]]'' live benefit shows, working alongside Peter Cook and [[Rowan Atkinson]], starting with the stage show that preceded those, ''[[A Poke in the Eye (With a Sharp Stick)]]'' in 1976. In 2005 she appeared at the [[Liverpool Empire Theatre]] in the musical play ''Twopence to Cross the Mersey''. She appeared in the role of an abbess in [[Howard Brenton]]'s play ''[[In Extremis (play)|In Extremis]]'', staged at [[Shakespeare's Globe]] in 2007. She also appeared in the dramatised version of [[Pedro Almodóvar]]'s film ''[[All About My Mother]]'', which opened at the [[Old Vic]] theatre in the late summer of 2007.<ref name=SunTime10/> Bron also gave the premiere performance of ''[[The Yellow Cake Revue]]'' (1980),<ref>{{Cite book |title=Peter Maxwell Davies |last=Griffiths |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Griffiths (writer) |year=1982 |publisher=Robson |isbn=0-86051-138-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N5oHAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Yellow+Cake+Revue%22+%2B%22Eleanor+Bron%22+-wikipedia|access-date=28 June 2011 }}</ref> a series of pieces for voice and piano written by [[Peter Maxwell Davies]] in protest against [[uranium]] mining in the [[Orkney Islands]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.maxopus.com/work_detail.aspx?key=300 |title=Work Detail: ''The Yellow Cake Revue'' |author=Sir Peter Maxwell Davies |author-link=Peter Maxwell Davies |publisher=MaxOpus.com |access-date=28 June 2011 |archive-date=14 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714053858/http://www.maxopus.com/work_detail.aspx?key=300 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Bron has written and performed new verses for [[Camille Saint-Saëns]]' ''[[The Carnival of the Animals]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|title=A fantastic journey|first=Matthew|last=Rye|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4707140/A-fantastic-journey.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160226073500/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4707140/A-fantastic-journey.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 February 2016|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=18 January 1997|location=London, UK|access-date=22 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/Eleanor-Bron-And-The-Vesuvius-Ensemble-The-Carnival-Of-The-Animals-And-The-Story-Babar-The-Little-El/release/5172331 |title=Eleanor Bron And The Vesuvius Ensemble – The Carnival Of The Animals And The Story Babar The Little Elephant |date=1977 |publisher=Discogs |access-date=22 May 2020}}</ref> She has also performed and recorded the female reciter part in [[William Walton]]'s [[Façade (entertainment)]] with the Nash Ensemble.<ref>{{Cite news|title=William Walton Centenary Concerts, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London|first=Laurence|last=Hughes|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/william-walton-centenary-concerts-queen-elizabeth-hall-london-9237161.html|newspaper=The Independent|date=20 March 2002|location=London, UK|access-date=22 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nashensemble.org.uk/html/cds/facade.htm |title=Façade |publisher=Nash Ensemble |access-date=22 May 2020}}</ref>
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